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A BRIEF SUMMARY
OF THE NATIONAL
HEALTH ACT, 2014
A PATHS2 PRESENTATION BY
• OLUWATOSIN AKANDE
•ISA NGEDE
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
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 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 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 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 V
Development, provision and
appropriate distribution of
human resources in the
national health system
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 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