WB will give grant to boost healthcare

The World Bank and the government yesterday signed a grant agreement to scale up and sustain essential health services for women, children and adolescents.

The WB said given the relatively low public spending in health as a share of the government's budget, scaling up services in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health had become quite the challenge.

The grant will partly address this resource need, it added.

Health Minister Mohammed Nasim, WB's Senior Director for Health Timothy Evans, Health Secretary Syed Monjurul Islam, Deputy Director Mission of USAID Paul Sabatine, High Commissioner of Canada Benoit Pierre Laramee, and Representative of the World Health Organisation in Bangladesh Navaratna Paranietharan were present at the signing ceremony held at a hotel in the capital.