Health Legislation

The Resolution approves the Health Policy and the Strategy for its Implementation.

This Law establishes the Disaster Risk Management and Reduction Legal Regime, which comprises risk reduction, disaster management, sustainable recovery for building human, infrastructural and ecosystem resilience, as well as adaptation to climate change.

This Act provides a framework for the regulation, development and management of a national health system and sets standards for rendering health services in Nigeria, as well as related matters.

This law establishes the legal regime for foreign nationals, setting out, in particular, the rules governing their entry, stay and exit from the country, their rights, duties and guarantees. With the exception of visa requirements, this law does not apply to permanent diplomatic and consular agents and their families or to special missions.

This Act provides and regulates the imposition of quarantine and to make other provisions for preventing the introduction into and spread in Nigeria, and the transmission from Nigeria, of dangerous infectious diseases.