Less than five percent of the N13.5 trillion combined budgets of the federal and state governments will be spent on public health this year.
 
This is despite the poor infrastructure in the sector and the avowal by the government to discourage medical tourism, Daily Trust investigations have shown.
 
Official data analysed by Daily Trust shows that the two tiers of governments have budgeted a total of N591.8 billion for health, representing 4.3 percent of their total spending this year.
 
Although the figure represents a slight increase over last year’s, it is well below the 15 percent benchmark set by the African Union (AU) during the Abuja Declaration in 2001.
 
Last year, only four percent (N499.3 billion) of the N12.2 trillion total budgets of the two tiers of government was spent on public health.
 
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