ording to a report, about one million children and women die from preventable diseases
annually in Nigeria. That 69% of health spending in Nigerian households is without insurance. That
Nigerians are spending one billion US Dollars annually on medical tourism abroad.
Official data analyzed shows that the federal and 36 state governments have budgeted a
total of 519.8 billion naira for health, representing 4.3% of their total spending of 13.5 trillion naira
combined budgets for 2017. The breakdown of the combined budgetary allocations to health at the
federal, state and zonal levels is shown on table XXX below:
Federal
State
Government
Government
Zonal Level Health Budget
Health Budget
Health budget
Top Spenders
Zone Budget
Health
%
N46.2bn
2006
107bn
Lagos
N51.4bn N/W
N1.01tr
(minus
4.6%
Kebbi)
N75.4bn
(minus
2007
122bn
Rivers
N27bn
S/W
N1.47tr
1.1%
Ondo &
Ekiti)
N57.8bn
2008
138bn
Kwara
N26bn
N/E
N593bn
(minus
3.4%
Adamawa)
N51.2bn
2009
156bn
Bauchi
N23bn
N/C N781.5bn
(minus
4%
Benue)
N51.1bn
(minus
2010
165bn
Borno
N19.5bn S/S
N1.77tr
9%
Cross
River)
N5.9bn
(minus
2011
236bn
Ogun
N15bn
S/E N581.2bn
3%
Ebonyi &
Imo)
2012
283bn
Low Spenders
2013
283bn
Abia
N685m
2014
264bn
Osun
N894m
2015
260bn
Niger
N2bn
2016
250bn
Enugu
N2.5bn
Gombe
N2.6bn
Environmental Factors
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