{"id":26067,"date":"2024-04-05T09:28:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T09:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=26067"},"modified":"2024-04-05T09:28:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T09:28:30","slug":"abia-assembly-passes-health-management-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/05\/abia-assembly-passes-health-management-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Abia Assembly Passes Health Management Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Abia State House of Assembly has approved the H.A.B.12 bill titled &#8216;The Abia State Medicine and Health Commodities Management Agency Bill, 2024&#8217;, aimed at ensuring the consistent availability of high-quality medicines and health commodities at reasonable prices. Sponsored by Mr. Okoro Uchenna Kalu, the majority leader representing Arochukwu constituency, the bill also focuses on strengthening local manufacturing units for medicine production.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Emmanuel Emeruwa, addressing assembly members during the bill&#8217;s passage, emphasized its significance in addressing healthcare challenges. Upon executive assent, the bill is set to become effective from April 4, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the assembly considered a petition presented by Kalu Mba Nwoke, representing Ohafia South State Constituency, regarding the alleged vandalism of machinery at the Eastern Region Estate Investment Palm Settlement in Okon-Aku Ohafia by Mr. Nmecha Ume, President-General of Okon-Aku Development Union.<\/p>\n<p>Nwoke called for the reactivation of the Palm Settlement to boost employment opportunities in his constituency and urged a thorough investigation into the vandalism incident, advocating for the prosecution of those responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abia State House of Assembly has approved the H.A.B.12 bill titled &#8216;The Abia State Medicine and Health Commodities Management Agency Bill, 2024&#8217;, aimed at ensuring the consistent availability of high-quality medicines and health commodities at reasonable prices. Sponsored by Mr. Okoro Uchenna Kalu, the majority leader representing Arochukwu constituency, the bill also focuses on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":26073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26083,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26067\/revisions\/26083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}