The National Assembly is set to review the 2017 budgetary allocation to the health sector from the proposed N304 billion to N1.1 trillion in line with African Union, AU, Abuja Declaration of 2001, which recommends a minimum of 15% of total annual budgets to be dedicated to health.
The chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator LanreTejuoso who disclosed this to journalists in Abuja yesterday during a press briefing, said budgetary allocation to health sector has continued to show “no break in gloomy pattern” over the years.
Tejuoso noted that Nigeria, despite being a signatory to the 2001 AU Abuja Declaration, has not met the minimum requirement of allocating 15% of the total annual budget to health, which accounts for the country not being able to meet the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, target.
He added that the National Assembly had expressed concern over the non-implementation of the National Health Act and provisions of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, CRF, in spite of the fact that the health sector requires emergency intervention and deserves priority attention also.
The chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator LanreTejuoso who disclosed this to journalists in Abuja yesterday during a press briefing, said budgetary allocation to health sector has continued to show “no break in gloomy pattern” over the years.
Tejuoso noted that Nigeria, despite being a signatory to the 2001 AU Abuja Declaration, has not met the minimum requirement of allocating 15% of the total annual budget to health, which accounts for the country not being able to meet the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, target.
He added that the National Assembly had expressed concern over the non-implementation of the National Health Act and provisions of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, CRF, in spite of the fact that the health sector requires emergency intervention and deserves priority attention also.
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