The Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) has said that the 5 per cent budgetary allocation to health sector is not enough to meet the numerous challenges confronting the Nigeria health sector.
Rising from it National Executive Council meeting in Uyo on Sunday, the association expressed concern that country’s health budget is still a far cry from the Abuja declaration which prescribed at least 15 per cent allocation to the sector.
The association, therefore called on government at all levels to improve their budgetary allocations to the sector in order to meet the Abuja declaration and consequently, put in place strategies to improve the economy in order to improve the Per Capital spending on health.
