World Bank credits target Armenian health system and reservoirs
Mediamax news agency
11 Jun 04
Yerevan, 11 June: The board of directors of the World Bank has approved
three credit programmes for Armenia totalling 3m dollars.
The deputy director of the World Bank’s Yerevan office with
responsibility for social issues, Susanna Ayrapetyan, said that 19m
dollars will be channelled to modernization of the health system,
Mediamax news agency reported. More than 5m dollars will be used to
improve management in the social security sphere.
The third credit programme, directed at improving the security of
Armenian reservoirs, will constitute 6.75m dollars. The programme
envisages repair and restoration work and also the introduction of
a security system.
The head of the external relations department of the World Bank’s
Yerevan office, Vigen Sarkisyan, said in Yerevan today that since 1993
the World Bank has implemented programmes totalling 820.8m dollars.