A group, the MamaYe-Evidence for Action, says it is launching a FundNaijaHealth campaign to push for improved budgeting and fund release practices for Nigeria’s health sector.
Spokesperson for the organisation, Mr. Laide Shokunbi, made this known in a statement made available, on Saturday, in Abuja.
He said in spite of significant global progress in healthcare, poor quality of care and sub-optimal accountability around resource allocation continued to affect Nigeria’s healthcare system.
Worried by this development, Shokunbi said the organisation would launch a national FundNaijaHealth to drum support for proper funding of healthcare in Abuja on June 4.
According to him, Sen. Lanre Tejuosho, Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, would join other political, Government and Development sector partners at the programme.
The chairman would deliver a keynote address on Budget Implementation and oversight functions of the Legislature, he said.
Shokunbi said the programme would address two critical areas of increase budgetary allocation to health, particularly maternal and newborn, and timely budget release.
He noted that poor budget allocation for healthcare has significant social and economic consequences manifesting in very low life expectancy at birth in the country.
He said that improvements in health and survival depended on the availability of quality services for maternal and newborn through advocacy and drive for accountability.
He said the NGO would seek to catalyse actions to improve health service delivery and quality of services provided in three focus states of Bauchi, Gombe and Lagos.
He said the NGO desired the policy makers and duty bearers to make the required resources available as a matter of course, adding that resources are central to achieving the overall objectives of improved maternal and newborn welfare.
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