Nigeria Needs N104bn Annually For Health Security – NCDC

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said that the country needs an average of N104.4 billion annually to implement its National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS 2.0).




The figure represents the annual average of the estimated N522 billion required to implement the country’s five-year health security plan covering 2025 to 2029.
The Director-General of NCDC, Dr Jide Idris, disclosed this in on Monday, in a statement explaining the Federal Government’s N10 billion emergency intervention funding to the agency, amid questions over the allocation during Nigeria’s Ebola response.
Idris said the N10 billion represented approximately two per cent of ...