North East and Red River Delta Regions Health System Support Project

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The development objective of the North East and Red River Delta Regional Health System Support Project for Vietnam is to increase the efficiency and equity in the use of hospital services in selected provinces of the North East and Red River Delta regions. The project will be achieved through two principals: (A) strengthening the capacity of local hospitals to deliver quality hospital services; and (B) reducing the financial barriers to accessing health services by the economically vulnerable. The project consists of the following three components, the first component is strengthening the capacity of lower level hospitals to deliver quality services, it aims to support the implementation of the government master plan on reducing hospital overcrowding 14 through increasing the capacity of the health system to provide more and better quality health services in the project provinces; the second component is reducing the financial barriers to access health services by the economically vulnerable, it aims to support the implementation of the government master plan on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) through reducing the financial barriers to accessing health services, particularly for the poor and near poor. And the final third component is project management, monitoring and evaluation, it aim to ensure adequate management structure, processes and human resource capacities for the project, and to setup mechanisms for effective monitoring of activities and evaluation of results.

FY17 - Health

World Bank

Project

Hospital, Forest Products and Packaging, Government