Ulaanbaatar
Basic infrastructure and medical equipment improved
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Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/ Basic infrastructure
and equipment of the Infection Prevention and Control Center and Microbiology Laboratory
of the First Central Hospital of Mongolia were improved with funds of MNT1
billion within ADB’s ‘Fifth Health Sector
Development Project’. Aimed to improve patients' and health workers' safety in
hospitals in Mongolia, the project spent MNT238.5 million on renovations and
distributed 29 kinds of medical equipment worth of MNT708.8 million in total.
At the
opening, Minister of Health D.Sarangerel said, “As the First Central Hospital
is an organization that conducts nationwide medical services, the project is
vital for the hospital to improve patients’ and health workers’ safety, increase
the types of medical tests required to provide good quality medical service, build the sample fund and
prevent and control hospital acquired infections.”
The Ministry of Health has been
implementing this project with ADB’s non-refundable aid since 2013.
Total cost of the project is USD38.2
million, of which USD30 million is the ADB’s soft loan, USD7.7 million is funded
by Mongolian government and USD480,000 is funded by World Health Organization.
In duration of the project implementation, basic infrastructure and equipment of the Infection Prevention and Control Center and Microbiology Laboratory of 20 hospitals nationwide were improved and with purpose to improve the capacity of sector’s personnel 516 physicians, professionals and engineering and technical workers of hospitals were involved in trainings.
