Creation and equipment of a heart center in Kabul, Afghanistan

SPA – Jeddah

Bandar Hajjar, president of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), and Afghan Finance Minister Mohammad Qayoumi, have signed an agreement for the creation and equipment of a 100-bed center in Kabul. Afghanistan, to provide high quality health services to heart patients in Afghanistan. 4 integrated rural health centers to improve access to primary health care services in 4 provinces of the most needy and marginalized population of Afghanistan.

The center will cover a staging area of ​​up to 60,000 people and provide a wide range of health services, at a total cost of $ 24.84 million, based on preliminary estimates provided by King's "Do It Good" program. Abdullah, managed by the Islamic Bank. For the development.

Under the agreement, the fund for the project of mobile clinics in Afghanistan, provided by the Doer Kheir program, will be reallocated to the establishment of the project of hospitals for the heart and health in rural areas at the request of the Afghan Government, in accordance with the Afghan government's development priorities and the health programs it needs.

Following the signing, the Bank President met with the Afghan President and discussed ways to develop relations between the two sides, while the Afghan President discussed elements of his country's economy, which is based primarily on agriculture, highlighting the importance of the Bank's support to agricultural value chains in Afghanistan to develop agricultural production and make the transition from the export stage of raw materials export products.

The President of the Bank explained the Bank's efforts to improve production and productivity in its member countries and reviewed in this regard some of the Bank's experiences, which are geared towards priority sectors of the economy, in which the state concerned has comparative advantages, noting that the Bank would strengthen its partnership with The Republic of Afghanistan will help to implement its plans and programs of upgrading of the national economy, especially the development of the agricultural sector.

The cumulative amount of Bank Group approvals for Afghanistan is $ 143.1 million and includes areas of cooperation between the two parties: agriculture, energy, transportation, mining, affordable housing projects and development of the private sector, in perfect harmony with Afghanistan's self-sufficiency agenda. .

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