The House of Representatives has resolved to start the process of restructuring the National Hospital, Abuja to make it more efficient.
The House therefore mandated its joint committees on health institutions, health services and governmental affairs to conduct a public hearing with a view to proffering lasting solutions to the state of the hospital in terms of restructuring, reorganizing, refinancing and repositioning.
This followed the adoption of a motion of urgent national importance by Rep Muhammad Sani Abdu (APC, Bauchi).
Leading the debate on the motion, Rep Abdu said since the upgrade of the National Hospital to a tertiary referral hospital and centre of excellence in 1999, service delivery began well but deteriorated thereafter.