Ogun State Government through its Ministry of Health says it will ensure improved health status for the people of the State through provision of qualitative public health services and as such planned to expend the sum of N9.306bn as total expenditure for next year.

Thus, its 2023 budget objectives would be to develop strategic and operational plans for the three levels of the health sector, in addition to monitoring the implementation and evaluation of the approved plan based on the principle of people, prevention and proven intervention for the overall health wellbeing of the people.

The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker stated this while defending the budget proposal of the Ministry before the members of the State House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation led by Hon. Kunle Sobukanla during the ongoing budget defence at the Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

Dr. Coker explained that out of the total expenditure, N7.52bn would be earmarked  for capital projects, with the remaining N1.78bn to be set aside for recurrent expenditure, while expected revenue for the period was fixed at N126.3m.

The lawmakers also considered the 2023 budget proposals of the State Ministry of Finance, Budget and Planning, State Internal Revenue Service, the State Primary Health Care Development Board, Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, the State Health Insurance Agency, the State Agency for the Control of AIDS ( SACA) and the State Alternate Medicine Board ( OGAMB) as well as all the State Hospitals and other general hospitals across the State amongst others.