Rural Primary Health Care Strengthening Project (PRSSB)

The Rural Primary Health Care Strengthening Project (PRSSB) aims to support the Government’s priorities and national health development strategies, including primary health care. This project should help the rural poor, especially women and children, gain access to quality basic health care. It should permit: (a) construction and / or rehabilitation and equipment of hospitals, health centers and housing, (b) acquisition of vehicles, ambulances and motorcycles, and (c) formation of health staff and that of the Equipment and Maintenance Department. The project, to be implemented over a five-year period, has the following four components: i) extension of the primary health care facilities network and construction of doctors’ and nurses’ quarters in rural areas in ten provinces; ii) support to six priority health programmes; iii) strengthening of 10 provincial hospital infrastructure and equipment maintenance units; and iv) project implementation.