📈 Sri Lanka Secures US$ 106.9 Mn from ADB for Health Sector Upgrade

• The Government of Sri Lanka and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed agreements for the "Strengthening Integrated Health Care and Governance for Universal Health Coverage Program." • Total Mobilization: US$ 106.9 Mn, including a US$ 100 Mn loan (ADB Regular OCR) and a US$ 6.9 Mn grant from the Pandemic Fund. • Objective: Support the national strategic framework to enhance efficiency and quality of secondary health services, ensuring Universal Health Coverage (UHC) via a Result-based Lending modality. • Key Focus Areas: Enhancing first referral care services. Strengthening pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPR). Improving health sector technical capacity and pharmaceutical supply chain management. • The Ministry of Health and Mass Media, alongside the nine Provincial Departments of Health Services, will implement the program.