The federal government has approved the sum of six trillion naira for a comprehensive national health care plan that would run for the next five years.

The Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole told state house correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting that 38.2% of the amount is earmarked for Human Resources, 34% for medical supplies and 7% for infrastructure.

According to the minister, the health plan is expected to run from 2018-2022, and it will be implemented in all the 36 states and the federal capital territory, Abuja.

The minister explained that the federal government is reengineering the nation’s health sector under the previous plan 1, which ran between 2010-2015 was unable to achieve all of its 52 targets.