The Federal Government says the Japanese Government has offered $18.2m (about N40.6bn) financial support to strengthen Nigeria’s health sector.
The Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clem Agba, disclosed this in Benin yesterday during his visit to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital.
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He said his visit was to assess utilisation of the N49bn intervention fund released by the Federal Government to 52 federal health institutions in the country.
He said the Japan’s support would come in the form of equipment and capacity building for medical personnel.
He said the support was made possible from President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the Japanese Prime Minister in 2019.
“I just want to let you know that Irrua Specialist Hospital and the UBTH, both in Edo, are included among the seven centres where this money will be spent.
“We also work with a USAID and I signed those agreements where they also gave us 200 ventilators and I’m aware that Irrua Specialist Hospital got three and the UBTH also got three from the 200 ventilators that we spread throughout the country,” he said. (NAN)
