The President of the Nigerian Academy of Medicine, (NAMed), Prof. Samuel Ohaegbulum, once noted that “it will be futile trying to improve primary healthcare, mother and child care or mental health, if funding is poor.” He said the major barrier to Nigeria boosting access to affordable healthcare was poor funding. 
  
“We keep calling on the government to increase budgetary allocation and to at least fulfill the 2001 Abuja Declaration that recommended 15 per cent of the national budget going to the health sector,” he said.
 
Commenting, Project Director, PACFaH@Scale, Mustapha Jumare, said the primary healthcare system in Nigeria requires a lot more work in terms of meeting basic standards and budgetary provisions.
  
“It will be difficult for the country to meet the target date of the Universal Health Coverage for so many reasons. The health budget is not being captured well, let alone the primary health care budget,” Jumare said.