{"id":4196,"date":"2024-06-25T14:21:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T08:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=4196"},"modified":"2024-06-25T14:21:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T08:36:23","slug":"world-bank-approves-150-million-usd-to-improve-primary-healthcare-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/world-bank-approves-150-million-usd-to-improve-primary-healthcare-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank approves 150 million USD to improve primary healthcare in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The World Bank&#8217;s Board of Executive Directors has approved 150 million U.S. dollars in financing for Sri Lanka to improve the quality and utilization of its primary healthcare services, according to a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The World Bank said the project will help improve quality of care and increase the use of primary medical care institutions, which provide essential health services to local communities.<br \/>\nCapacity challenges and absence of a formal referral mechanism have led to the underutilization of primary healthcare facilities and overcrowding in tertiary care facilities in Sri Lanka, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The previous World Bank supported project already enhanced 550 Primary Medical Care Institutions with essential equipment, medicines, health workers and basic laboratory testing facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The new project will scale up these efforts to cover 100 percent of Primary Medical Care Institutions across all districts of Sri Lanka, expanding to over 1,000 facilities with a more comprehensive service package and improved quality of care, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank&#8217;s Board of Executive Directors has approved 150 million U.S. dollars in financing for Sri Lanka to improve the quality and utilization of its primary healthcare services, according to a statement on Monday. The World Bank said the project will help improve quality of care and increase the use of primary medical care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4197,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions\/4197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}