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Prioritise Health Sector in Budget-Stakeholders Tell Buhari

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Channel: Viable Tv · 2017 · News & Politics

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‎Disturbed by the low Budgetary Allocation to the Health Sector by the Federal Government, stakeholders in the sector have called on the Federal Government to include the 1% of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation in the 2018 annual budget to fund Basic Health Care Services in line with 2014 National Health Act. 

The group also asked government to set-up a monitoring and accountability for the implementation of the 2014 National Health Act, to ensure that key milestones are achieved within reasonable time frame to forestall the current delays being experienced  

At the Press Conference titled The Proposed 2018 Budget :Is the Federal Government Committed to a Healthy Nation? The Country Director of ONE Campaign,‎Serah Makka-Ugbabe said the current allocation to health sector is grossly insufficient to address Nigeria’s fragile and failing health care system, saying that Nigerian health sector remains in crisis. 

leadership of ONE Campaign who spoke ‎ in Abuja, in conjunction with Health Sector Reform Coalition, appealed to Federal Government to support States to set-up governance structure for the domestication of National Health Act to ensure that it deepens it's engagement with state level actor and stakeholders to increase buy-in and ownership of the operationalization process.

With a spend per Nigeria citizen in deficit and amongst lowest in the world, and service delivery rate that is at the rear end and amongst the worst in the world, Nigeria cannot claim to be an economic lion, when the health of its citizens flutters, so Deacon Mike Egboh -Co-convener, Health Reform Coalition ‎and Dr. Ejike Oji-Chairman Association For the Advancement of Family Planning‎ are asking the federal government to invest more in health while putting in place measures for transparent expenditure for the 2018 health budget.

The National Assembly is also being ‎called upon to periodically monitor the operationalization of the National Health Act as part of their constitutional oversight functions. 

They also urged the NASS to review the guidelines and regulation of the Standing Committee to fast-track the National Health Act Implementation

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