Government should increase its allocation to the health sector and also reduce leaks in its expenditure because a situation where less than one- fifth of its paltry budget for Health goes for capital expenditure is deplorable
In a recent report by the United Nations Funds for Population Activities (UNFPA), Nigeria is said to account for over 14 per cent of the World's maternal deaths. At about 145 of such deaths per day, this figure is outrageously high and unacceptable, if we consider that the figure translates to 576 deaths per 100,000 births and that Nigeria's population is just two per cent of the world's population.
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