Senate debates bill to establish fund to treat gunshot victims

The Senate on Tuesday considered a bill seeking to amend the Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshots Act, 2017.

The bill was sponsored by Senator Oluremi Tinubu who said that the intent behind the Compulsory Treatment and Care for the Victims of Gunshots Act, 2017, was to enforce treatment for victims of gunshots injury. The lawmaker, however, explained that the Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017, provides that every hospital, public or private shall receive for treatment, with or without police clearance, with or without monetary deposit, persons with gunshot wounds, and criminalizes contravention.

She said, “It is however shocking that in spite of the Act, the flagrant disregard of human life continues unabated, it is particularly sad that we continue to let brilliant and skilful minds go to waste, in what are apparently avoidable deaths.

Whose gunshot? BH, bandits, kidnappers or herdsmen?

You people are crazy. Health workers across the country still flout the law that states the treatment of victims before police report...

In favor of....

Not even to tackle the cause of the gunshot. Nigeria is a joke.

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