{"id":303267,"date":"2024-07-03T17:28:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=303267"},"modified":"2024-07-03T17:28:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:58:57","slug":"goi-and-adb-signed-170-million-loan-to-strengthen-pandemic-preparedness-and-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/goi-and-adb-signed-170-million-loan-to-strengthen-pandemic-preparedness-and-response\/","title":{"rendered":"GOI and ADB Signed $170 million loan to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source-This post on \u201cGOI and ADB Signed $170 million loan to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response\u201d has been created based on the article <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2030329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cGovernment of India and ADB sign $170 million loan to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response\u201d<\/a> published in \u201cPIB\u201d on 2 July 2024.<\/p>\n<h2>Why in the news?<\/h2>\n<p>The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a $170 million policy-based loan. The loan aims to consolidate and strengthen India\u2019s health system preparedness and response capacity for future pandemics.<\/p>\n<h2>About Strengthened and Measurable Actions for Resilient and Transformative Health Systems Programme<\/h2>\n<p><strong>1. About:<\/strong> It is an initiative aimed at enhancing health systems in India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Goals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>i) Strengthen disease surveillance and multi-sectoral response.<\/p>\n<p>ii) Strengthen human resources for health (HRH).<\/p>\n<p>iii) Expand climate-resilient public health infrastructure and innovative service delivery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Alignment with Government Initiatives: <\/strong>The program will help the ongoing efforts by the government in disease surveillance, ensure sufficiency and quality of health professionals and promote climate-resilient public health infrastructure and service delivery. Some of the major government plans and initiatives, including:<\/p>\n<p>i) National Health Policy, 2017<\/p>\n<p>ii) Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM)<\/p>\n<p>iii) National One Health Mission<\/p>\n<p>iv) Efforts to strengthen human resources for health (HRH)<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Targeted Reform Areas:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>i) Disease Surveillance: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a) Establish laboratory networks for infectious disease surveillance at various levels.<\/p>\n<p>b) Build robust data systems for monitoring and coordinating national health programmes for vulnerable groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ii) Human Resources for Health:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a) Support policy reforms to ensure adequate and competent health professionals.<\/p>\n<p>b) Implement legislation to regulate and maintain standards of education, services, and professional conduct for health workers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iii) Public Health Infrastructure:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a) Manage integrated public health laboratories in five states and district critical care hospital blocks.<\/p>\n<p>b) Establish green and climate-resilient healthcare facilities.<\/p>\n<p>c) Support innovative solutions for service delivery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Implementation:<\/strong> The programme will support the inter-sectoral governing body and multi-sector task force in establishing climate-resilient healthcare facilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Benefit<\/strong>: It will help manage critical care hospital blocks to improve services for infectious diseases and critical illnesses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus: Programmes<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source-This post on \u201cGOI and ADB Signed $170 million loan to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response\u201d has been created based on the article \u201cGovernment of India and ADB sign $170 million loan to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response\u201d published in \u201cPIB\u201d on 2 July 2024. Why in the news? The Government of India and the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/goi-and-adb-signed-170-million-loan-to-strengthen-pandemic-preparedness-and-response\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOI and ADB Signed $170 million loan to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[11872,3590],"class_list":["post-303267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}