The problems faced by referral hospitals in Burkina Faso have much more to do with the budget that the State allocates to the field. This is well below the 15% commitment contained in the 2001 Abuja Declaration.
To boost health funding, African states agreed a joint declaration in Abuja in 2001, committing each of them to devote at least 15% of their overall budget to health. Of the State’s 2021 budget of 2,110,974,000 FCFA, only 11.93% has been earmarked for health, reports the Centre d’étude et de recherche appliquée en finances publiques (CERA-FP) in the Civil Society Memorandum on the State budget, management 2021.
In the rectified draft State budget for 2020 management submitted to the National Assembly, the health budget has been revised downwards. Initially at 13.96 %, it fell to 12.84% on a total of 2,507.62 billion FCFA, CERA-FP also points out in its report. Citizen analysis of the amended finance bill 2020. For the 2019 budget, only 11.12% has been allocated to healthcare.
However, the share allocated to the education sector represents 22.76% of the State budget in 2020, compared with the 20% commitment made at the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000. The agricultural sector accounts for 10.23% of the 2019 draft budget, compared with the 10% commitment made in Maputo in 2003, notes the CERA-FP.
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