Akwa Ibom Assembly passes mental health bill

Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, connected Tuesday, April 7 has passed into instrumentality a measure establishing a Mental Health Services Department to modulate and amended intelligence healthcare transportation crossed the state.

This followed the presumption of a study by the House Committee president connected Health, Hon. Moses Essien astatine the plenary plenary.

Essien explained that the instrumentality volition supply a coordinated model for intelligence wellness services successful Akwa Ibom State and safeguard the rights of persons with intellectual, psychosocial and cognitive disabilities, portion improving entree to prime intelligence healthcare, rehabilitation, and community-based treatment.

According to him, cardinal provisions of the authorities see guidelines for obtaining consent for treatment, empowering the Commissioner for Health to formulate indispensable regulations, and repealing the outdated Lunacy Law of 1916.

Essien commended the Speaker and the members of the location for their enactment and urged his colleagues to follow the committee’s recommendations.

Following deliberations, the House dissolved into the Committee of the Whole for a clause-by-clause information of the bill. The study was subsequently adopted, and the measure passed done 3rd reading.

The Speaker, Rt. Hon. (Elder) Udeme Otong, thereafter, anno...