A BRIEF SUMMARY

OF THE NATIONAL

HEALTH ACT, 2014

A PATHS2 PRESENTATION BY

• OLUWATOSIN AKANDE

•ISA NGBEDE

AIM

To provide a framework for the regulation, development and management of national health system and set standards for rendering health services in the federation, and for related matters.

PART

IResponsibility and eligibility of health services and establishment of

national health system

PART

1

Establishment of the National Health

System which shall define and provide a

framework of standards and regulation

of public and private health service

providers. This will protect, promote and

fulfill the rights of the people of Nigeria

to have access to health care services.

PART

IIHEALTH ESTABLISHMENTS AND

TECHNOLOGIES

PART II

The need to structure the delivery of health

system in accordance with national

standards within an integrated and

coordinated national framework in the

public and private health establishments.

PART

111

HEALTHCARE PERSONNEL

PART III

• Treatment of all emergency cases, without

prejudice

• Respect the rights of the healthcare personnel

and indemnify when indicated

• Access and obligation to keep health records and

patient confidentiality

PART

IVNATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH AND INFORMATION SYSTEM

PART IV• Establishment of a National Health Research Committee

and a National Heath Research Ethics Committee

• Coordination of the National Health Management

Information System (NHMIS)

• Periodic review of the National Drugs Formulary and

Essential Drugs list including safety of drugs and food

supply

• Ensure the widest possible catchments of the National

Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS

PART

VHUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH

PART V

Development, provision and

appropriate distribution of

human resources in the

national health system

PART

VI

CONTROL OF USE OF BLOOD, BLOOD PRODUCTS, TISSUE AND

GAMETES IN HUMANS

PART VI• Establishment of National Blood Transfusion

Services

• The removal of tissues, organ transplant,

blood and blood products from living bodies

should be in accordance with the prescribed

protocols including the ethics concerned

with the post mortem examination of bodies

• Prohibition of reproductive and therapeutic

cloning of human kind

PART

VII

REGULATIONS AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

PART VIIThe Minister, in consultation with

the National Council, may make

regulations with regard to any other

matter which is reasonably

necessary or expedient to prescribe

in the implementation of this Act

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