Senate passes national health act bill for second reading

[Nightwatchmare]

Good afternoon my 9ja people, i hope say unah dey fine. senator passed a bill on our health care system which will help to save lives of Nigerians. The bill that the senate pass is, a health care provider, health worker, or health establishment shall not refuse any person emergency medical treatment for any reason, and anyone that fails to attend to emergency will go to jail or fine 300,000. I so much like this bill because in Nigeria health centers and hospitals (public and private), if you cannot make deposit when you take your loved one or friend that is in a critical condition to hospital treatment will not be giving to the person, this has made people lost their loved ones and friends that should have not die. In as much as the senate mandate health practitioners to attend to emergency, they should also pass a bill for health centers and public hospitals to be equipped with all the necessary medical and laboratory machines so that it would be easy for them to give treatment to emergency because some health centers and public hospitals cannot perform some medical tests due to lack of machines.

Weytin unah think about this bill?

[Charles-Tim]

It will be better next time if you include the link of where you read it from.

https://naltf.gov.ng/in-moves-to-enforce-mandatory-emergency-medical-standards-across-healthcare-facilities/

This will probably apply to only public hospitals which are owned by the government. If it is a private key, you have to lay before service.

But they are the owners of the hospitals and they are the ones passing the law.

[yixichloro2xx]

Its mostly private health centre that usually reject an emergency patients if they don't pay. At times government hospitals does it too , but some of the reason is because they don't have the available medical equipment to treat the person so they refer the person to a better health centre. The goal of any private enterprises is making profit, so treating someone without payment might be a loss to them. Imagine they give someone a treatment worth ₦500k and later the patient say they don't have any money to pay for their treatment. This often happens, which is why private hospital always demand for a down payment. The only way this law could be effective for both the private and public health centre is by creating a healthcare programme for people with limited income, emergency cases in partnership with the FG. So the federal and state governments will co- handedly create a monthly payment structure to compensate participating private and government hospitals for treating eligible patients who cannot afford the cost. But this will require a medical data for each hospitals to verify if they truly treat the eligible people to avoid fraud. This way hospital can provide emergency treatment without the worry of not being paid.