YAR’ADUA’S ILLness - The Presidency Raises Expenditure on Health To Spend N386m on Medical Equipment Purchases Drugs Worth N394 m 

Written by Sule Lazarus     
Saturday, 28 November 2009 23:51 
Preident Umaru Musa Yar
The Presidency has proposed the sum of N1,052,820,475 in next year’s budget for State House health care delivery.  Of this sum, N386 million is meant for the procurement of medical equipment for the State House Medical Centre, while the completion of the extension works at the centre is to gulp N162 million.
Inside sources confided in Sunday Trust that the expansion work is apparently to reposition the State House Medical Centre (SHMC) for the new health challenges of President Umaru Yar’adua and other occupants of the State House.

The project commenced in the previous year, 2009, when the sum of N119 million was set aside for the ‘completion of the extension work.’  But it was not clear at the time of this report why The Presidency is still budgetting such sum for the completion of the SHMC extension in 2010.

The breakdown of the over N1billion appropriated in the 2010 budget also indicated that N67,850,000 was budgeted for medical expenditure, as against the N13,925,000 in 2009.

Then, another segment entitled “drugs and medical supplies” gets an allocation of N394,000,000 against the N242,100,000 that was assigned for the same subhead in 2009.

There is also another segment for the Presidency’s contributions to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to the tune of N42,970,475.00. In 2009, the provision for the NHIS was slightly lower. It stood at N41,024,471.


In 2008, the budget for health care services was a total of N520,476.333. In 2009 the budget came down to N431,049,471, only to rise sharply in 2010 to N1,052,820,475.

Though the State House medical centre is meant to service the president and other workers in the State House, the huge budgetary allocation for 2010 which is far above the previous years’ (2008 and 2009) and gives credence to the suspicion that the budget is likely raised to meet the current health challenges of the president.

It should be noted that workers in Aso Rock also have unhindered access to other high profile hospitals, both private and public, in the Federal Capital Territory, owing to the current government health policies  such as the National Health Insurance Scheme which has made it easy for public servants to get medical attention.

The sharp increase in financial vote for medicare in The Presidency in the 2010 budget comes on the heels of concerns for Yar’adua’s failing health, confirmed to Nigerians last week by his personal physician, Dr Salisu Banye. He is suffering from acute Pericarditis, an inflammation of the fibrous sac surrounding the heart.

Banye said the president was diagnosed with pericarditis last week, and was being treated at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

According to an inside source, the medical equipment that would be acquired in the coming year are sophisticated enough to meet the medical needs of the president, thereby reducing the regular foreign trips for medical attention and the attendant criticism the trip often generates.

“Each time the president travels out for medical attention it generates controversy here and there, hence if the state House clinic is fully equipped it would address some of the matters for which the president does travel abroad to address,” he said.

In recent times, they have been rising concerns over the president’s failing health.

The president’s trip, particularly the way and manner he rushed out without the usual prior announcement and television footage of his exit, generated tension about his state of health. The anxiety grew into wild rumours.

However, the President’s adies have insisted that he was hale and hearty, and recovering at the foreign hospital where he had undergone tests and received treatment for the ailment he was diagnosed.


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Because of one man out of 140m people. This country sef

The black man is completely useless. . . .

If only the FG was this generous when it came to health care and education spending for it's citizens

walata44:


[size=13pt]The project commenced in the previous year, 2009, when the sum of N119 million was set aside for the ‘completion of the extension work.’ But it was not clear at the time of this report why The Presidency is still budgetting such sum for the completion of the SHMC extension in 2010.


The breakdown of the over N1billion appropriated in the 2010 budget also indicated that N67,850,000 was budgeted for medical expenditure, as against the N13,925,000 in 2009.

Then, another segment entitled “drugs and medical supplies” gets an allocation of N394,000,000 against the N242,100,000 that was assigned for the same subhead in 2009.


There is also another segment for the Presidency’s contributions to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to the tune of N42,970,475.00. In 2009, the provision for the NHIS was slightly lower. It stood at N41,024,471.


In 2008, the budget for health care services was a total of N520,476.333. In 2009 the budget came down to N431,049,471, only to rise sharply in 2010 to N1,052,820,475.

Though the State House medical centre is meant to service the president and other workers in the State House, the huge budgetary allocation for 2010 which is far above the previous years’ (2008 and 2009) and gives credence to the suspicion that the budget is likely raised to meet the current health challenges of the president.

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Did anyone else read this? Roflmao!!

mazaje:

The black man is completely useless. . . .

Lol.

lol

For the people praying. . .how can GOD who you pretend to pray to look kindly on a man who spends all this money on HIMSELF and over 150Million+ people are left stranded if they get hit by malaria, typhoid or other "smaller" sicknesses? Pray all you want but man only proposes . . .

God help us, do we think with our brains or our nuts, beats me

CyberG:

For the people praying. . .how can GOD who you pretend to pray to look kindly on a man who spends all this money on HIMSELF and over 150Million+ people are left stranded if they get hit by malaria, typhoid or other "smaller" sicknesses? Pray all you want but man only proposes . . .

that is a dumb thing to say

kosovo:

that is a dumb thing to say

And you are the dummy who is supposed to monitor people's opinion and approve their opinions? You'd better get a life if you have nothing meaningful to do just yet!

There are lots of people out there without money to buy a common aspirine but the foolish leaders are spending such a huge amount of money on a single soul. May god have mercy on us ooo.

There we go again. . . Useless Country!

How can anyone in his/her right mind defend Yaradua or pray for him? That money there Will be better spend to improve 1 or 2 hospital in the country. I could remember during Tony Blair premier in UK when the man was ill then, he got admitted to Hammersmith hospital in Fulham (NHS).
Until when Nigerians realise that Yaradua is not a ruler of Nigeria but part of arm of govt of Nigeria.

At least these fools in the rock house cannot 'buy good health'. Na dat one god take pass dem

This Country is full of shit!! Must the president fly abroad evrytime he has headache or backpain.
Why cant goverment establish a standard health center in Nigeria, fully equiped with good medical facilities and doctors.
This country sef,even our Leaders are not helpling matters. Thats why Almost evry nigerian wants to go abroad to do one thing or the other, because There nothing works in nigeria, Healthcare is 0, Bad roads, Education system is Dead,and so on.
I want to ask everybody this question. Are our Leaders living by Examples? Our people lack basic amenities and our govement is spending billions of naira in aquiring aircrafts and traeting our president abroad. This is why other countries  laugh at US, because sometimes i wonder if WE think
Infact I don Tire sef, Dey can do Whatever they want.