The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, has said that health expenditure will remain a priority for the President Muhammadu Buhari- led administration in 2019 despite revenue constraints.
However, Udoma said the constrained fiscal space occasioned by drop in oil price and disruption to crude production continues to reflect on revenues. He also pointed out that the dwindling donor funding had further compounded matters with the country’s transition from the status of a poor country to a developing economy.
But, the Director General Budget Office of the Federation, Mr. Ben Akabueze, in his presentation on “Prioritising Health in the National Budget” disclosed that the federal government had earmarked the sum of N43.5 billion for routine immunisation programme in 2019.
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