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| Monday, 4 August 2003 |
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The Government of Japan has decided to provide a grant of 250 million rupees (approximately US dollars 2.6 million) to improve maternal and child health services in the war affected districts in the North and East and three neighbouring districts, Anuradhapura, Moneragala and Puttalam. This emergency grant will be channelled through the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Colombo. The project will support the construction/rehabilitation of maternity and neonatal services in 10 major hospitals and strengthen the capacity of 28 primary health care facilities to provide maternal and childcare as well as neonatal services. In areas where access to health facilities is inadequate, the project will support the construction of 10 Antenatal/Child Welfare Clinics to increase access to maternal and child care services. Other activities supported through this contribution include addressing the problem of malnutrition among children and mothers and strengthening immunization services for children. The project will be implemented under the collaboration of UNICEF and the Ministry of Health, Nutrition & Welfare. The ceremony for handing over the "document of inventory" will take place today at the Health Minister's Room of the Ministry of Health, Nutrition & Welfare, Colombo 10, by Tetsuro Yano, Senior Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs in Japan, who is currently in Sri Lanka to Honourable P. Dayaratne, Minister of Health, Nutrition & Welfare and Mr. Ted Chaiban, Representative of UNICEF with the presence of His Excellency Seiichiro Otsuka, Ambassador of Japan and Dr. Reggie Perera, Secretary, Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Welfare. |
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