The Minister for health, Professor Isaac Adewole, has
raised the alarm over lack of adequate funding for the health sector, lamenting
that the menace of Tuberculosis was not provided for in the 2015 Budget of the
ministry.
Adewole, who spoke yesterday
in Abuja during an interactive meeting with the House of Representatives
Standing Committee on HIV, AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Control, said the
priority of his ministry will be primary healthcare and a quest for the health
sector to be funded appropriately and promoting public health education.
"No budget for TB this
year and yet HIV/AIDS is driving TB and TB is driving HIV/AIDS," the
minister said.
"I will plead with our
legislators to look into this and specify who does what," Adewole noted.
He told the lawmakers that the
lack of National Health Agenda for the country is not helping matters, adding
that Nigeria is two years behind the test and treat ideal for disease.
The chairman of the committee,
Hon. DavematicsOmbugadu, told the minister and his entourage that the essence
of the interactive session was to familiarise with one another ahead of the
oversight visits of the committee.
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