ADB approves US $ 106.9mn to strengthen secondary healthcare services in Sri Lanka

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US $ 106.9 million financing package to strengthen Sri Lanka’s secondary curative care services, improve communicable disease prevention and control and enhance the healthcare sector’s governance and management capacity.

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The funding for the Strengthening Integrated Health Care and Governance for Universal Health Coverage Programme consists of a US $ 100 million loan from ADB and a US $ 6.9 million grant from the Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Trust Fund.

“Sri Lanka has made impressive gains in ensuring access to and quality of health services for all,” said ADB Country Director for Sri Lanka Takafumi Kadono.

“But with rising longevity and changing lifestyles, elderly healthcare needs and noncommunicable diseases are on the rise. Such demographic and disease pattern changes require a more robust secondary care to effectively provide patient-centred treatments and care services with enhanced case management capacity.”