SV - Earthquake Emergency Recovery & Health Services Extension Project

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The Earthquake Emergency Reconstruction and Health Services Extension Project seeks to restore hospital operations, and improve the provision of health assistance, specifically to vulnerable groups in the country's earthquake-damaged areas, in particular the underserved populations of the poverty-stricken Northern Region. The components will support: 1) an emergency reconstruction of the Ministry of Health (MOH) hospital network in the earthquake affected areas, through a phased construction that will meet current seismic structural codes. Equipment supply will include computerization, medical waste disposal equipment, and medical equipment. Technical assistance (TA) will be financed to cover environmental impact studies, topographical analyses, and engineering drawings; 2) the extension of essential health and nutrition services to damaged, and poor areas, by forming partnerships with nongovernmental organizations, and local government agencies, to strengthen MOH capacity, towards an integrated service delivery of health and nutrition services. Participatory outreach programs with communities will be established, including the development of management reforms in those reconstructed hospitals, to establish accountability systems, and health coverage in rural areas; 3) strengthening of MOH's capacity to perform public health programs, with improved quality and disease surveillance, regulation and performance-based monitoring; and, 4) project management, including the project's overall impact evaluation, and financial audits.