The Minister of Health, Dr Osage Ehanire and other stakeholders rejected a provision made in the Bill co-sponsored by the Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Primary Healthcare and Communicable Diseases and Health Institutions, in Abuja.
According to the minister and others, the piece of legislation duplicates key functions of the National Centre for Diseases Control, NCDC, and this to them, is a waste of efforts.
The Minister in his submission at a public hearing on the Bill, picked holes in part 6 and other sections of the Bill.
The Ministry also picked loopholes in several other sections duplicating the already statutory functions of the NCDC.