The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide loans worth 160 millionUSD and a grant of 11 million USD to expand Vietnam’s access toquality health services and improve irrigation infrastructure.
Agreements to this effect were signed between ADB and the State Bank of Vietnam in Hanoi on September 7.
Of the total, a 60 million USD loan from ADB and the 11 million USDnon-refundable aid from the Government of Australia will finance theHealth Human Resources Sector Development Programme which deals withobstacles in health service delivery, especially the management of humanand financial resources.
The programme will upgrade trainingfacilities, provide training for ethnic minority health workers andfacilitate the adoption of standard treatment and costing packages forhealth services provided to the Vietnamese people.
Addressingthe ceremony, ADB representative Ayumi Konishi said that Vietnamshould accelerate and step up socially inclusive policy reforms toaddress inequalities and improve delivery of social services asimprovements in health status - especially of the poor and ethnicminorities - are critical to achieving the country’s development goalsof inclusive development.
Another 100 million USD loan was for the Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project.
Theproject will repair the 50-year-old Bac Hung Hai irrigation anddrainage system in the northern provinces of Hung Yen, Hai Duong andHai Phong.
It will also construct a new trainingcentre for the Water Resources University which is expected tobe completed in June, 2016 and benefits 14,200 people./.
Agreements to this effect were signed between ADB and the State Bank of Vietnam in Hanoi on September 7.
Of the total, a 60 million USD loan from ADB and the 11 million USDnon-refundable aid from the Government of Australia will finance theHealth Human Resources Sector Development Programme which deals withobstacles in health service delivery, especially the management of humanand financial resources.
The programme will upgrade trainingfacilities, provide training for ethnic minority health workers andfacilitate the adoption of standard treatment and costing packages forhealth services provided to the Vietnamese people.
Addressingthe ceremony, ADB representative Ayumi Konishi said that Vietnamshould accelerate and step up socially inclusive policy reforms toaddress inequalities and improve delivery of social services asimprovements in health status - especially of the poor and ethnicminorities - are critical to achieving the country’s development goalsof inclusive development.
Another 100 million USD loan was for the Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project.
Theproject will repair the 50-year-old Bac Hung Hai irrigation anddrainage system in the northern provinces of Hung Yen, Hai Duong andHai Phong.
It will also construct a new trainingcentre for the Water Resources University which is expected tobe completed in June, 2016 and benefits 14,200 people./.
