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Additional funds for health ministry

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    Nigeria's Ministry of Health is to receive an extra two billion naira (US $20.68 million) to meet urgent needs, the vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Nnamdi Eriobuna, said.

    The national assembly last week approved a supplementary budget to cover capital and recurrent expenditure for the rest of 1999.

    Eriobuna said on Tuesday in Lagos that the money would go to improving health standards and meeting the World Health Organisation's recommendation that 12 percent of a nation's annual budget go to the health sector.

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