The Global Prolife Alliance (GPA) would like to draw your attention to the greatest National Security Threat posed by the National Health Bill 2014 as passed by the National Assembly and urge you not to assent to this NHB 2014 because it was funded by the Foreign Biotechnology Companies and International Organ Trafficking Cartel to use Nigerians for Biological Slave Trade and Organ donation!

NO CHANGES were made from the prior versions, only cosmetic rewording! In summary, the NHB 2014, has serious flaws, since the Bill fails to protect the ‘Sanctity of Life’ and ‘Dignity of the Human person’ as enshrined in the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria at the 36th Annual General Meeting (AGM) pointed out the serious flaws in the current bill  It would be successfully challenged in Nigerian and International Human Rights courts. Here are the highlights:

• The NHB 2014 permits the trafficking in human ovarian eggs and sperms, by not mandating use of human gametes (ovarian eggs and sperms) under CONSENT. Note that, the Bill deceptively excludes ‘gametes’ in the definition of ‘tissue’ in the Interpretation section, so that it is not protected by CONSENT for tissues.

The poaching of human ovarian eggs would lead to medical complications of ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome,that would result in deaths of over 10 million poor Nigerian women in the next five years, who may be forced by economic hardship to sell their ovarian eggs. The Bill Gates Foundation and their allied international donor organizations are sponsors of the NHB 2014. Their aim is to create sources for 100 million ovarian eggs per year from 10 million Nigerian women who would die 2-3 years later.

Nigeria today is the highest exporter of ovarian eggs in the World according to EU Policy Report, so IVF practitioners seek a legalized framework to expand egg poaching from Nigerians.

The Chibok girls kidnapping was used to pressure Nigeria but so far failed. Now strikes funded through proxies in the various sectors of Nigerian economy is now in use in the mix with some legitimate agitations. Please don’t yield to this pressure because the country will totally capitulate on every threat resulting in deaths of millions of Nigerians!

• The NHB 2014 does not provide for explicit DONOR consent for human organ transplantation in Sections 49 (b) and 52, which creates room for human organ poaching and trafficking trade that would endanger the lives of many Nigerians. It is alarming that the international organized crime cartels have become involved in Nigeria, seeking to open new opportunities after the closure of the illegal human organ sales in India and the Philippines.

• The NHB 2014 mandates issuance of Certificate of Standards in Section 13, focused on building and equipment requirements rather than medical services. The Bill was deceptively crafted to mandate closure of many private and mission hospitals in Nigeria within the next 24 months, while providing for thriving foreign owned and operated hospitals in Nigeria built under the International Building Code for hospitals not matched by 98% of Nigerian hospitals today. The ensuing chaos in the health sector would lead to many Nigerians loosing their lives.

• The NHB 2014 in Section 46 does not offer job security for Nigerian public health workers during resolution of industrial disputes.

The idea is to sack Nigerian health workers from key teaching hospitals and replace them with foreign workers involved in organ harvesting allowed in Section 52 where the Foreign Doctors authorize organ transplantation from Nigerians to foreigners on ‘Organ Transplant Tourism’ in Nigeria.

• The NHB by proposing FREE Emergency Services in Section 20 is impractical and unsustainable; rather Nigeria should aim at Universal Health Coverage Insurance Scheme. It is an unacceptable abuse of human rights in Section 48 that waives the CONSENT clause even for free emergency treatment, since it would expose patients to many abuses including organ poaching for sale allowed in Section 52.

•Dr Philip C. Njemanze MD, Chairman, Global Prolife Alliance (GPA), sent this article as an open letter to President Jonathan on defects of the National Health Bill (NHB) 2014.