The federal government has deemed it fit that two thousand naira would be enough in the year 2020 to provide for the healthcare of each of the estimated 200 million Nigerian.
About three weeks ago, key stakeholders in the health sectors gathered at an event declared open by the representative of the Vice President to discuss the crisis of universal health coverage in the country. At the event organised by the PREMIUM TIMES, Dr Chiedo Nwankwo, a health and gender expert, stressed that Nigeria had failed to properly fund the health sector using the country’s failure to meet the 15 per cent benchmark agreed upon in the Abuja Declaration of 2001.
Furthermore, reported cases of Meningococcal disease by WHO as of March 2017 is a total of 1407 with 211 cases resulting in deaths, although the Nigeria Center for Disease Control puts the number of reported cases at 914. Another instance which shows that the priority of this administration is shifting away from healthcare is the fact that out of the three key development sectors of the country, health sectors got the lowest appropriation in the 2020 national budget. The Health Ministry had a meagre budget of N427.30 billion which is only 4.14% of the proposed budget for 2020, while the Ministry of Education has 653.94 billion which represents 6.
The National Health Act states that “at least 1% of the Consolidated Revenue Fund shall be allocated to Basic Health Care Fund ”. Based on the 2020 Appropriation Bill, the Consolidated Revenue Fund is N10.33 trillion, which means that the one per cent allocation to BHCF should be N103.3 billion and not N44.50 billion.
This declining capital budget allocation is despite the continuously rising recurrent budget for the same period. As shown in the chart above and the table below, the recurrent health budget increased from 221.41 billion naira in 2016 to 252.85 billion in 2017 and 269.97 billion nairas in 2018. In 2019, the recurrent still rose to 315.62 billion in 2019 and has further been increased in the proposed budget to 336.32 billion naira against 2020.
MBuhari NigeriaGov Na una sabi
MBuhari NigeriaGov Even the N 2000, 3/4 of it will be stolen by his aides and relatives dropping his name. Shit hole.
chosensomto MBuhari NigeriaGov Abada117 -buhari is evil and wicked
MBuhari NigeriaGov See wailers comments 😀🤣
MBuhari NigeriaGov 😀😀😀😀
MBuhari NigeriaGov He's the president, his life is more important than that of any Nigerian, Buhari must be made to live forever, we cannot afford for Buhari to get old or die
akosdahthird MBuhari NigeriaGov Inside life, even those that defends Buhari from morning till night, na the same 2k we enjoy 😂 😂 😂
akosdahthird MBuhari NigeriaGov Inside life, even those that defends Buhari from morning till, na the same 2k we enjoy 😂 😂 😂
MBuhari NigeriaGov I wonder who he's defending,is it the people he has not prepared any healthcare for?I think something is wrong
MBuhari NigeriaGov What is a president : It someone with a smart ideal and trust by the people to use the country treasure in trade to bring about development and good environment to the rich and the poor . But what do we have ............pathetic
MBuhari NigeriaGov That man is mad. Everyone knows
MBuhari NigeriaGov What's the difference BTW ministry of defense and ministry of police affairs please
MBuhari NigeriaGov What a joke we have as President.
MBuhari NigeriaGov I donate my share to Buhari, obviously he needs it more than i do ....... 😒
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