We will move against quacks in the health industry – Minister
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“What we are going to do at the federal level, is to set up a Health Facility Regulatory Commission that will start regulating the standard of health care across the country and we expect the states to set up their regulatory bodies as well.”
The Minister of State for Health, Dr Tunji Alausa, says there will be a push for a new regulation in the health sector in order to check the activities of quacks.
Alausa said this on Friday when he paid a courtesy call on the governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, at the Presidential Lodge, Abeokuta.
Alausa lamented the large numbers of quacks operating in the health industry.
He said, “We will be pushing for a new regulation to regulate the healthcare sector as more than 60 per cent of the nation’s healthcare is in the hands of the private sector without adequate supervision.
“You see hospitals, laboratories, and diagnostic centres being run without anybody checking on what they are doing and these are some of the places where illegal practices like organ harvesting are taking place.
“What we are going to do at the federal level, is to set up a Health Facility Regulatory Commission that will start regulating the standard of health care across the country and we expect the states to set up their regulatory bodies as well.”
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