The budgetary allocation to the country’s health sector would be increased to 15 percent in line with the 2001 African Union Abuja declaration, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator Lanre Tejuosho(APC, Ogun) said on Wednesday.
Addressing newsmen on the budget of the Health sector in Abuja, he said the budget would be increased to enable the country’s address the challenges bedeviling the health sector.
” There shall be increased appropriation by the National Assembly to the health sector in line with the African Union Abuja declaration of 2001,which recommends a minimum of 15 percent of total annual budget to be dedicated to health, “he said.