WORLD BANK BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO CONSIDER NEW ARMENIAN HEALTH REFORM PROGRAM IN OCTOBER
ARKA
May 13, 2010
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, May 13, /ARKA/. The Armenian government has designed a plan
of actions to modernize its healthcare system and will submit it to
approval of World Bank Board of Directors in October, the territorial
administration ministry said in a press release today adding that if
it okayed, the implementation of the program would kick off in 2011.
According to the press release, territorial minister Armen Gevorkian
met May 12 with top managers of the World Bank health program
in Armenia. The meeting was attended by Armenian health minister
Harutyun Kushkian. World Bank representatives presented the status
of implementation of the first and second credit programs funded by
World Bank and some questions related to the new program.
According to the press release, the additional financing for health
sector modernization envisages furnishing with new equipment and
renovation of several regional hospitals, particularly, in Abovian
and Alaverdi and construction of a new hospital in Meghri.
Minister Gevorkian proposed that the new program encompasses also a
town hospital in Kapan, the administrate center of the southernmost
province of Syunik and an important industrial center of the country.
The World Bank plans to provide Armenia with a $160 million loan this
year for implementation of 8 projects.