Supporting the Health Sector and strengthening cooperation with French Guiana

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The Project will finance an investment program and bilateral cooperation activities:Improving access to secondary care for the population living in the eastern region. A rural hospital of 40 beds and basic medical functions will be built in Albina for the benefit of the population of Marowijne district, i.e. about 25,000. Upgrading capacities of referral hospitals. Part of the essential medical equipment of the Academic and Diakonessenhuis hospitals, the two main referral hospitals in Paramaribo will be replaced.Increasing capacities of primary health care services. The program will renovate and equip Medical Mission clinics in the Hinterland and RDG clinics in the coastal region. Medical equipment will also be provided.Strengthening of cooperation with French Guiana. This program will be based on a threefold approach, i) development of cooperation between hospitals, ii) strengthening of collaboration in the field of communicable disease, and iii) establishment of a partnership between Suriname Central Laboratory and French Guiana Institut Pasteur.