Gov't signs 20m dollar pact to furnish health sector

The president of Cameroon, Paul Biya, has authorized by decree his Minister for the Economy, Planning and Regional development to sign, with the International Development Association (IDA), subsidiary of the World Bank, an agreement of loan amounting to 20 million dollars for the additional financing of the Project of support for investments in the health sector.

This envelope results from the total amount of the project, amounting to 25 million dollars approved in June 2008, for a fence fixed at March 31, 2014 and whose zones of intervention are the areas of the East, the West, the Littoral, the North-West and the South.

The project, which carries a particular accent on maternal and infantile health and the transmissible diseases, implements the approach of the financing based on the results in order to increase the recourse of the populations in the health services and improve the quality of the latter.

The awaited results aim at the increase in the financial autonomy of the health centers, the motivation of the people receiving benefits of the public and deprived sector, the change in the manner of distributing and of using public and private resources in the health sector, the access to quality health services as well as the development of a national policy of financing based on the results.