T.A. & RHB PROJ

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The project represents the first stage in planned assistance to the health sector. It comprises the preparation stage for a possible sector operation (the proposed Health Sector Reform Project). It will finance the following components: (a) technical assistance (14 percent of total project cost) which will consist of (i) about 12 policy/institutional reform and infrastructure investment studies, and (ii) pilot-testing of key reforms, as well as the startup phase of the information system, and training and information workshops; (b) a hospital rehabilitation program (80 percent of total project cost) which will finance urgent rehabilitation needs of 17 hospitals in six health service areas in the poor urban and semi-rural areas of Metropolitan Santiago; and (c) project administration (6 percent of total project cost) which will support the operation of a Project Coordinating Unit (PCU) which coordinates project implementation, provides assistance to the health service areas, and continues preparation of a possible follow-up operation.