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From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Idris Wase, has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for giving assent to the Federal Medical Centres Bill (2022).
Wase, in a statement, also thanked President Buhari for assenting to the the bill establishing the Federal Medical Centre ( FMC) Wase. The deputy speaker described the two acts as part of the ” legacy legislations of this administration.
According to him, “the Act provides legal framework for all the existing Federal Medical Centres across the Federation and also established a new Federal Medical Centre, Wase, Plateau State, charged with the responsibility of providing “facilities for diagnostic, curative, preventive and rehabilitative services in medical treatment.”
He noted that the FMC Act also provides for the enabling framework to ” construct equip, maintain and operate such training schools, and similar institutions for providing the Medical Centres with appropriate staff.
The Deputy speaker added that the new act will “ensure that the standards of treatment and care provided at all establishments under its control and the standards of treatment and care provided for patients at those establishments is not below the required standards.”
