The Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Ibrahim Oloriegbe, has said he is hopeful that President Muhammadu Buhari will assent to the Public Health Emergency Bill before he leaves office on 29 May.
Mr Oloriegbe, while speaking at a media roundtable alongside other legislators in Abuja on Tuesday, said the ninth assembly would continue to push to ensure that the bill is assented to by the President.
Mr Oloriegbe, a lawmaker representing Kwara Central Senatorial District, said the Public Health Emergency Bill, when approved, would revoke the 96-year-old Quarantine Act and establish a framework for managing public health emergencies of national and international concern.
