ADB approves $100m to improve secondary healthcare in KP

• The program aims to improve health services in secondary hospitals of KP among other objectives.
• An ADB official says that Pakistan is facing the threat of unprecedented floods, water-borne diseases.
• KP suffers from an infant and maternal mortality rate of 53 per 1000 live births.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $100 million results-based loan to help strengthen the quality of secondary healthcare in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

This program will help improve the delivery of health services at the secondary level. Hospitals By modernizing infrastructure and equipment, ensuring implementation of clinical protocols, standards and guidelines and human resource planning and drug supply chain management, ADB said in a press statement received on Thursday. improve

ADB Director General for Central and West Asia Yevgeny Zhukoff said, “While the coronavirus has put enormous pressure on essential health services in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and across the country, Pakistan is now facing unprecedented floods that have increasing the risk of diseases caused by

“This program will play a key role in improving the quality of secondary hospital services in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and while it was conceived before the monsoon, it will help people physically injured by floods and treat infectious diseases. It will help in efforts to control the spread”. Zhukov added.

According to the statement, the health sector of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is facing major challenges, including outdated secondary schools Health care Facilities and equipment and inadequate quality assurance standards and processes.

The province suffers from infant and maternal mortality rates of 53 per 1,000 live births and 165 per 100,000, respectively.

“ADB’s support will help sustain health reforms initiated by the provincial government and strengthen the health system’s resilience to future pandemics.” ADB Hiddo Huitzing, Senior Health Specialist for Central and West Asia.

“This will benefit an estimated 38 million people, including women in need of maternal health care services, and create jobs in the health sector,” Huitzing added.

Since 1966, ADB has provided more than $37 billion in loans, grants, and other financing to promote inclusive economic growth in Pakistan and improve the country’s infrastructure, energy and food security, transportation networks, and social services. What is the covenant of types?

In response to the floods, ADB is developing a critical response package for immediate and long-term support to people, livelihoods and infrastructure.

The bank has already approved a $3 million grant for the immediate purchase of relief supplies such as food supplies and tents. ADB is also processing a separate counter-cyclical package to help Pakistan deal with the impact of external shocks.