N262B (1.7Billion USD) has been allocated to #health in Nigeria's 2014 budget; of which 82% is going to recurrent expenditure. All the detailed allocations to the Ministry of Health can be found here. We urge you to go to the website, download a copy (who knows how long it will be up) and use it to hold our health sector organisations accountable. Remember that we do have a Freedom of Information Act in Nigeria and we cannot blame government if we don't use it.
Health Allocation in 2014 Nigerian Budget
The N262B allocated to #health is about 6% of the total budget and second only to defense, education and finance (finance includes debt servicing). It is slightly less than the N279 allocated to Health in 2013.
Some interesting aspects of the budget includes the N4B budgeted for the National Health Insurance Scheme, this is before premiums are collected! Yet, it still covers less than 4% of the population, mostly employees of the Federal Government and its parastatals.
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