Gbenro Adeoye
The President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Prof. Ahmed Yakasai, has said that the one per cent Consolidated Revenue Fund provided for by the National Assembly for primary health care in the 2018 budget will directly benefit the poor in the country.
Yakasai spoke when he led other executive members of PSN on a visit to the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, where he thanked him and other senators for facilitating the inclusion of the one per cent CRF in the 2018 budget.
He added that the primary health care fund would greatly boost the health care system, reduce poverty, create jobs and improve the economy of Nigeria.
Yakasai, in a statement by the Special Assistant to the President of the Senate on Print Media, Chuks Okocha, was quoted as saying, “Indeed something that gladdened our hearts is the issue of the one per cent Consolidated Revenue Fund that the National Assembly has captured in the 2018 budget that was passed recently.
Responding, the President of the Senate, said that the essence of the one per cent CRF was to improve the standard of the health care system in the country.
Saraki said, “This is an important provision that will definitely improve the lives of a lot of our people, especially the poor among us. It will enable them to access medical services that are available and affordable.”
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