The World Bank will provide $40 million to finance a project on the development of the healthcare system in Dnipropetrovsk region, the press service of Dnipropetrovsk Regional Administration has reported, referring to Paolo Carlo Belli, World Bank Program Leader for the Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova Country Unit based in Kyiv.
‘This is a very substantial and well-grounded project. We’re discussing the mechanisms for its practical realization and expect that it will be implemented successfully,’ he said at his working visit to Dnipropetrovsk region.
Under the project it is planned to strengthen the primary medical aid, preventive measures for cardiovascular diseases, create diagnostics centers to treat patients with heart and neurologic diseases in three hospitals of the largest towns of the region – Dnipropetrovsk, Kryvy Rih and Pavlohrad.
The project will be expanded with the financing from the regional budget of at least 10 percent of its cost.
Acting director of the healthcare department of Dnipropetrovsk Regional Administration Ihor Makedonsky said that the project is to be realized during five years. Its start is scheduled for early 2015.
