The World Bank approved an $ 11 Million donation and a $ 10 million loan in order to improve health services.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
These funds will strengthen the operational capacity to extend health coverage services offered by the Ministry of Health, the rehabilitation of health units and create a fund for financial support in case of a public health emergency.
The health services program for the care of the family and community, focuses on 32 municipalities in the Local System of Integral Health Attention (SILAIS) in Chinandega, León, Managua, Boaco, Chontales, RAAS, Rio San Juan and the Indian Territories of Wangki and Bocay.
"This project will benefit approximately 625 thousand people in these municipalities, whose population has been identified as the most vulnerable and where they must continue to strengthen capacity of health services to develop a preventive health promotion" said Camille Nuamah, World Bank Resident Representative for Nicaragua.
The main objectives of this project are:
Provide prevention and health promotion through a network of municipal health services.
Improving the institutional capacity of MOH to manage, monitor and evaluate the essential functions of health services and their responsiveness in the case of a public health emergency.
Strengthen supervision and monitoring mechanisms through a technical audit.
The government has announced that it plans to build 1,000 health posts in different areas of the country with a $96 million World Bank loan, which must be approved by Congress.
Lucrecia Hernández Mack, head of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (MSPAS), reported that"...
An IDB loan will implement a program to improve access, use and quality of health in all provinces, including indigenous regions and their surrounding rural areas.
From a press release from the Ministry of Economy and Finance:
The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) have signed a loan agreement for B /, 50 million to implement a program to improve health equity in Panama, specifically by increasing access, use and quality of health in all provinces, including indigenous regions and their surrounding rural areas.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved the loans to help expand coverage and quality of health services in Honduras.
A Loan for $27.5 million will expand the scope and quality of maternal care and will support decentralization of health management.
The funds will strengthen decentralization of health management, particularly in Departments of La Paz, Intibucá, Copán, Lempira, Gracias a Dios, Olancho, Ocotepeque, Santa Barbara and Cortes as well as strengthen the leadership role of the Ministry of Health.