USD and a grant of 11 million USD to expand Vietnam’s access to
quality 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 USD
non-refundable aid from the Government of Australia will finance the
Health Human Resources Sector Development Programme which deals with
obstacles in health service delivery, especially the management of human
and financial resources.
The programme will upgrade training
facilities, provide training for ethnic minority health workers and
facilitate the adoption of standard treatment and costing packages for
health services provided to the Vietnamese people.
Addressing
the ceremony, ADB representative Ayumi Konishi said that Vietnam
should accelerate and step up socially inclusive policy reforms to
address inequalities and improve delivery of social services as
improvements in health status - especially of the poor and ethnic
minorities - are critical to achieving the country’s development goals
of inclusive development.
Another 100 million USD loan was for the Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project.
The
project will repair the 50-year-old Bac Hung Hai irrigation and
drainage system in the northern provinces of Hung Yen, Hai Duong and
Hai Phong.
It will also construct a new training
centre for the Water Resources University which is expected to
be completed in June, 2016 and benefits 14,200 people./.
