Stakeholders in the Health Sector yesterday appealed to the Federal Government to increase the health sector budgetary allocation to 15% as against the current 5.5 percent.
They also challenged government to honour its 2013 commitment by increasing the Family Planning commodities budget to at least 11 million dollars.
Speaking at a one-day forum in Abuja, the Chairman Association For Advancement of Family Planning (AAFP), Dr Ejike Orji, said that the Federal Health budget has remained far short of the 15 percent of the national budget for the past 15 years since African Heads of State and Government first made the Abuja declaration in 2001.