The Acting Chief Executive Officer of the proposed National Institute for Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Zaria, Kaduna State, Dr Dalhatu Aminu, has faulted the opposition of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the Nigerian Infectious Diseases Society and the Health Sector Reform Coalition to the bill establishing the institute, describing their criticisms as a product of a “fundamental misreading” of the proposed legislation.
Aminu said the groups based their objections on provisions that do not exist in the current version of the bill before the National Assembly, insisting that the proposed institute would complement, rather than duplicate, the statutory functions of the NCDC.
PUNCH Online reports that the bill seeking to establish the National Institute for Public Health and Infectious Diseases has sparked debate within Nigeria’s public health sector.
While the NCDC and some stakeholders argue that the proposal could create overlapping responsibilities with the agency established
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