By Daud Olatunji, Abeokuta

The Nigerian Medical Association has asked the Federal Government to immediately implement the World Health Organisation’s 15 percent Gross Domestic Product for health.

Ogun  state chairman of NMA , Dr. Abayomi Olajide, stated this   at the 2016 Physicians’ Week organised by the  State branch of the association in Abeokuta.

Olajide called for a speedy implementation of  the National Health Act and the community-based health insurance scheme for the benefit of the masses.

According to him, “it is pathetic that the National Health Act has not been implemented two years after it was signed into law”

In his remarks, NMA General Secretary, Dr. Adewunmi Alayaki, has reiterated the call for a reduction in capital flight used by government officials to seek medical attention abroad.

Dr. Alayaki argued that  government should rather develop the country’s health system, since Nigeria is blessed with the needed expertise.

“We, as a body, have  been fighting for this for a very long time and we will not relent. We have said it repeatedly that there is need for government to develop a health system in this country”, he said.