ISLAMABAD, Sept 23 (NNN-APP) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB), has approved a 100 million-U.S. dollar results-based loan, to help strengthen the quality of secondary health care in Pakistan’s north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the ADB said yesterday.
The programme will help improve the delivery of health services at secondary hospitals, by modernising infrastructure and equipment, ensuring that clinical protocols, standards, and guidelines are implemented, and improving human resources planning and medicine supply chain management, the ADB said in a statement.
In response to the floods, the ADB is preparing a significant response package to support people, livelihoods, and infrastructure, immediately and in the long term, it said.
It further added that, the bank has already approved a three million-dollar grant, to fund the immediate purchase of relief goods, such as food supplies and tents.
The ADB is also processing a separate countercyclical package, to help Pakistan weather the impacts of external shocks, according to the statement.– NNN-APP
