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March 20, 2019
The Minister of State for Health, Osaghe Ehanire,has expressed the commitment of Federal Government to boost healthcarefinancing in line with the Abuja Declaration.
The minister made this known during the communityoutreach programme aimed at increasing TB case finding in Abuja.
The programme, organised by the National TB andLeprosy Control Programme of the Federal Ministry of Health, is part of the activitiesto commemorate the 2019 World TB day.
The event scheduled for March 24 has its theme “It’stime’’ with a slogan “End TB in Nigeria,Keep the promise, find TB, treat TB’’.
The minister said, Federal Government is going to beasking for 15 per cent of the national budget to be allocated for funding thehealth sector.
He said the Abuja Declaration suggested thatcountries must try to allocate at least 15 per cent of their annual budget toincrease health funding.
The minister said the country has a lot of healthchallenges and TB was one of them.