Moldova to borrow 40 million dollars from World Bank to modernize patients' rehabilitation services
14:13 | 11.12.2023 Category: Social
Chisinau, 11 December /MOLDPRES/ - The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) will provide Moldova with financial assistance for the modernization and improving of the patients’ rehabilitation services. The members of the parliamentary commission for foreign policy and European integration today approved a notification on the initiation of an agreement on loan.
Thus, IBRD will provide a loan worth 40 million dollars and the agreement on loan regards more components.
A part of the financial resources are meant for the rehabilitation of the patients who suffered from cerebral vascular accidents (CVA) and heart attacks. In this respect, departments endowed with needed medical devices will be developed and modernized at the medical and sanitary institutions.
At the same time, a part of the loan will be used for the financing of programmes on the prevention and management of non-transmissible diseases both for Moldova’s citizens and for refugees; screening and treatment; training employees in the health sector; campaigns on raising people’s awareness about the major risk factors in case of CVAs and heart attacks, including high blood pressure, consumption of salt, physical inactivity and unsound nourishment; extension of present programmes in telemedicine and of digital solutions in terms of health and medical assistance.
Also, the programme will finance the integration of the multidisciplinary care for cardiac patients and those hit by CVA, consolidation of the digital infrastructure for backing the integration of the rehabilitation services, planning the discharge from hospitals and protocols in terms of primary medical assistance and development of models of home care, in order to minimize the useless and prolonged treatment in hospitals.
The agreement on loan between Moldova and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development will enter into force 90 days following the date of its signing at the latest.
