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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | World Bank to infuse $152m to boost UP’s ailing health sector

World Bank to infuse $152m to boost UP’s ailing health sector

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published Published on Mar 27, 2012   modified Modified on Mar 27, 2012
-The Times of India
 
In a bid to induce a fresh life into the ailing health services delivery system in Uttar Pradesh, the World Bank has signed a $152 million deal with the Central and UP governments. The funds will be used to finance the government's efforts to improve the efficiency, quality, and accountability of health services in the state.

The project, called the Uttar Pradesh Health Systems Strengthening Project (UPHSSP) for India, has been financed by a credit from the International Development Association (IDA) - the World Bank's concessionary lending arm. Apart from strengthening the delivery mechanisms, the objective of the project is also to improve the state health department's management and systems capacity.

The UPHSSP project, which was approved by the World Bank in December 2011, will run in two parts; the first component involving strengthening the department of health's management and accountability systems. In this part, funds will be used to make the strategic planning functions of the health department stronger. This will be done by working closely with the recently established Health and Knowledge Resource Centre (HKRC) in the family welfare department. Funds will also be used to improve the existing Electronic Data Processing (EDP) and to strengthen the use of financial information for better decision making through the existing accounting and auditing systems.

The second component will stress on engaging with the private sector, an area where UP has been a laggard. This will include establishment of and capacity building for Quality Assurance (QA), Environment Management (EM) and Public Private Partnerships (PPP) cells in the directorate of health. To assist public sector hospitals in getting accreditation under the National Accreditation Board of Hospitals (NABH), the project funds will also be used to improve the quality of service delivery at such hospitals. The project will also emphasise contracting the private sector for delivering diagnostic and non-clinical support services, apart from being used hiring accredited health managers at facility levels.

With UP having among the poorest health indicators in the country, the financial assistance, the Central government officials said, would support the state government pilot mechanisms at the health facility and village levels to allow people to know what they can expect from health service providers and are to increase their accountability.

The IDA will finance the project with a final maturity of 25 years including a grace period of five years and a 1.25% interest rate. ``Today institutional constraints to better health services are affecting the entire population of UP, particularly the poor. Through this project we hope to build the necessary institutional capacity of the state to achieve sustainable health outcomes," Sanjay Agarwal, principal secretary, department of medical health and family welfare, said, after the MoU between the Centre, UP government and World Bank was signed.

The project follows the UP Health Systems Development Project, which was operational in UP between 2000 and 2008 to support investment in secondary health care services and systems. Under this project, the World Bank had infused funds for primary and preventive health services in national programs for reproductive and child health, immunization, polio eradication and disease control.


The Times of India, 26 March, 2012, http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-26/lucknow/31239920_1_health-sector-health-services-health-managers


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