Increase budgetary allocation for health sector, expert tells FG

With less than four months that Federal Ministries, State Ministries, Departments and Agencies will begin preparation of the 2019 budget, governments at various levels have been urged to increase their budgetary allocation to health services.
A Medical Laboratory Scientist, Basiru Akintunde, stated this while fielding questions from journalists in Abuja on issues bordering on health matters.
Akintunde noted that there is no way the Gross Domestic Product of country will not improve if it spends more on health.
He explained that when government spends more on the health of a nation, the health status of the citizenry improves and thereby has a direct impact on the productivity and GDP of that nation.
Akintunde, who is eyeing the position of Publicity Secretary of the Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, Oyo State Branch, said he is in the race to right some wrongs among health practitioners in Oyo State.
He promised that if elected, he will live up to his duties as constitutionally expected from the holder of the position of Publicity Secretary, adding that a better image would be created in Oyo State and Nigeria in general.
Akintunde urged all Medical Laboratory Scientists in the State to come out en masse and participate in the election slated for August 9, 2018 at Emanuel Alayande Teachers’ House, Samonda, Ibadan.