By Ijendu Iheaka
October 28, 2016
The Chairman, Nigerian
Medical Association, Aba Zone, Dr Udo Mark on Friday said the National Health
Act 2015 cannot be implemented without effectively addressing some of its provisions.
Mark disclosed this during an interview with our reporter in Aba, Abia State.
“The problem we have with the implementation of the
National Health Act is that we have people with poor medical knowledge piloting
medical affairs of Nigeria.
“And sometimes they do not seek information before
they act on some policies or even formulate one.
“The assisted fertility practices are not new but
have been going on in some parts of the world. And as countries make policies
to regulate and we must also regulate. Of course we cannot exist in isolation.
“But you have to look at what other countries are
practicing and adapt your practice to your local needs.
“So the National Health Act cannot take-off effectively
without these provisions effectively addressed and these are what want the people
in government to understand.
“We ask government to summon the political will to
create the enabling environment for its implementation to take off at all the tiers
of government”, he said.
Mark condemned the situation where the policy-makers
in the Nigerian health sector would give control of the medical sector to
non-doctors or paramedics.
He said that unless decisions and resulting actions
like the mentioned were curtailed, the Nigerian health sector would continue to
suffer setbacks.
NAN reports that some Nigerians including Human
Rights Lawyer Femi Falana had kicked against the act for bearing clauses which
breached the human rights of Nigerians.
The rights Falana said included “right o life, human
dignity, privacy and freedom of thought, conscience and religion by authorizing
medical doctors to remove human organs without patient’s consent”.
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