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    "content": "country into agreements which the same Government does not want to implement. One such agreement is the Abuja Declaration, in which 15 per cent of our national Budget was directed to the health sector. However, up to now, our allocation to the health sector is below or around 5 per cent of our national Budget and yet we are supposed to be headed to 15 per cent by the year 2015. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Maputo Plan of Action is a similar agreement in respect of which we have not done much to support as Government. To be very precise, looking at our health issues, under MDG Nos.4, 5 and 6, we are talking about maternal health, child mortality and HIV/AIDS. In all this, the Government is required to allocate sufficient funding, so that in our effort to improve maternal health, we can be able to rightly access productive health and family planning commodities, so that we can save mothers from losing their lives during child-bearing. We lost direction when we had HIV/AIDS in the country. We digressed and went into HIV/AIDS, leaving aside family planning. In development, if we do not know where we stand in terms of our population, it will be difficult for the Government to plan and allocate sufficient funds for the country to meet its obligations. The rate of death of mothers during child-bearing is so high that the country must take action to correct this scenario. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have Vision 2030, which is simply a plan that was voluntarily done by the Government. However, if you look at the steps being taken to correct the errors we have in Government and push the development of the country to where it is supposed to be in 2030, you will still have questions. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) No.4 is about reducing child mortality, but if you look at the allocations that have been made to the two Ministries in charge of health, you will realise that there is a lot that needs to be corrected. There is a lot that should be corrected. There should be an adjustment of the budget so that there is sufficient allocation to acquire sufficient things by the relevant Ministries so that we have immunization for our children when they are born."
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