ADB approves $108 mn loan to boost Mizoram's public healthcare system

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a USD 108 million results-based loan to support the Government of Mizoram in strengthening its public health care system and achieving universal health coverage.

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The Supporting Public Health Care System Strengthening to Achieve Universal Health Care for Mizoram Programme aims to improve equitable access to affordable, high-quality health services for the state's 1.38 million residents, particularly women, older people, and persons with disabilities, the ADB added in a release. " This programme will help the state roll out its new Mizoram Universal Health CareScheme (MUHCS), which brings all citizens under one health insurance umbrella consisting of subsidised and contributory mechanisms," said ADB Country Director for India Mio Oka. "By leveraging and augmenting existing Central (Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana) and state government (Mizoram State Health Care Scheme) programmes under a single, seam