The Federal Government has rejected plans by the Senate to upgrade some medical facilities to tertiary health institutions in Adamawa State.
The Senate is proposing three bills to give legal backing to the upgrade of the health institutions.
The bills sponsored by the Senator representing Adamawa Central, Aisha Dahiru Ahmed Binani include the National Dermatology Hospital, Garkida Adamawa, Establishment Bill 2021; Teaching Hospital for the Modibbo Adama University, Yola and Federal Medical Centres Establishment Bill.
In his presentation at the opening of a two-day event on the bills, the Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, said the sponsors should have sought and obtained presidential approval before coming up with the proposed legislation.
He noted that the 1995 Act establishing teaching hospitals states in Section 1 (3) empowers only the president to give approval for their establishment, adding that already there are 22 teaching hospitals and others are still coming on stream.
“What we’re saying is that proposing a bill to amend the teaching hospitals Act to include the name of a non-existent hospital is like ‘putting the cart before the horse.
“As much as it’s important to pay attention to the issue of dermatology, we also know that establishing a hospital for dermatology conditions will affect patients’ opportunities to be co-managed by other specialties”, Mamora said.
The chairman of the committee, Ibrahim Oloriegbe, however, said the National Assembly has powers to make laws for the establishment of federal health institutions.
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