The Senate has passed the National Health Emergency Bill on its second reading. The bill is supposed to be comprehensive law that would guide responses to infectious disease outbreaks both in Nigeria and abroad. The law, which was initially read in the plenary in June, is intended to establish a national framework for the control of infectious disease outbreaks in the country. Senator Chukwuka Utazi, the member representing Enugu North and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Primary Healthcare and Communicable Diseases, presented a report that led to the bill’s passage. While presenting the Co…