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The World Bank on Monday signed the financing agreement for a 200 million U.S. dollar concessionary loan to Sri Lanka to help upgrade health standards, the organization said in a statement.
The loan will be used to enhance the performance of the public health system and enable it to better respond to the challenges of a middle income country.
The financing agreement of the Second Health Sector Development Project (SHSDP) is to improve prevention and treatment of non- communicable diseases and to further strengthen the interventions to improve nutrition outcomes in Sri Lanka. "We are happy to further support the health sector that has achieved remarkable results in most health indicators,"said World Bank Country Director Francois Clottes."With this loan, we are supporting the government's efforts to improve service delivery and further build system capacity at the central, provincial and district levels."
Sri Lanka's health system, which has achieved strong results in reducing communicable diseases and improving maternal and child health outcomes is now facing new challenges in the context of an aging population and a public health priority transition from communicable to non-communicable diseases.
The National Health Development Plan of the government of Sri Lanka has identified these priority challenges and the World Bank is partnering with the Ministry of Health in the implementation of the plan.
The Second Health Sector Development project aims to improve the standards of performance of human resource, introduce electronic health information systems and improve the quality of the health sector.
The project will support the introduction of quality management units, strengthen accident, rehabilitation and emergency services and improve quality assurance programs of laboratory services in health facilities across the country, the statement said.
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