Health plan
Wednesday, 08 March 2006
Barbados is closer to establishing its 2002-2012 strategic plan for reforming the local health sector.
The ministry received the first tranche of 2.4 million dollars from the European Union this morning, which is part of a 25 million dollar EU grant to be disbursed over a four-year period.
Minister of Health, Dr. Jerome Walcott, says Barbados is the first country in the Caribbean to be accorded this type of sector budget support.
He says while the funds are to be used in the entire sector, specific areas have singled out for special attention. Head of the delegation of the European Commission in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Amos Tincani, says the undertaking is one with a difference.
He says that although they have donated just over 45 million dollars to Barbados already, they normally donate funds only to assist with the building of facilities and equipment, and this is the first time they have donated funds to the direct budget of a ministry.
©Copyright Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation, 2005
Wednesday, 08 March 2006
Barbados is closer to establishing its 2002-2012 strategic plan for reforming the local health sector.
The ministry received the first tranche of 2.4 million dollars from the European Union this morning, which is part of a 25 million dollar EU grant to be disbursed over a four-year period.
Minister of Health, Dr. Jerome Walcott, says Barbados is the first country in the Caribbean to be accorded this type of sector budget support.
He says while the funds are to be used in the entire sector, specific areas have singled out for special attention. Head of the delegation of the European Commission in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Amos Tincani, says the undertaking is one with a difference.
He says that although they have donated just over 45 million dollars to Barbados already, they normally donate funds only to assist with the building of facilities and equipment, and this is the first time they have donated funds to the direct budget of a ministry.
©Copyright Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation, 2005
