Its first Vice-President, Dr Benjamin Olowojebutu, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos.
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The legislators took the vow during a Strategic Legislative Engagement Roundtable on Improving Health Sector Budget Performance in the state.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has given “the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and leadership of the National Assembly 14 days to reverse the proposed illegal cut of N26.51 billion in basic healthcare budget and to cut the National Assembly and Presidency budgets instead, or face legal action.”
He said that lack of functional primary health care in the rural areas created more burden to the Tertiary Health Institutions where the facilities and the staff that were supposed to be specialists to handle serious ailments were battling with treating malaria and other minor ailments which could have been treated at the Primary Health Care Centres