PEOPLES GAZETTE
The president of the Nigerian Cancer Society (NCS), Abidemi Omonisi, has called for a significant increase in the allocation to the Cancer Health Fund (CHF) in the 2025 Appropriation Bill.
Mr Omonisi made this appeal on Saturday in Abuja during a seminar for health journalists on the NCS’s “Enhancing Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine Awareness and Uptake in Nigeria” project.
The project, a two-year awareness initiative by NCS in collaboration with Pathfinder, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), aims to address gaps in the uptake of the HPV vaccine.
The federal government had allocated N1.3 billion to the CHF over the past four years, with N200 million earmarked for the fund in the 2024 budget.
However, in the 2025 proposed budget, of the N2.39 trillion allocated to the health sector, only N150 million is designated as counterpart funding for CHF and N50 million for Childhood Cancer Health Funds.
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