Algeria commits $28 bn to health sector
Algeria has committed a sum of $28 billion to achieve its health sector master plan by 2025.
By PTI |
ALGIERS: Algeria has committed a sum of $28 billion to achieve its health sector master plan by 2025.
Health Minister Amar Tou told a press conference here after the Cabinet meeting that this investment "will help us bring in an additional 86,000 beds, replace 12,181 others in the old hospitals and build prefabricated hospitals".
Tou stressed that the old structures represented nine per cent of the current capacity and that the prefabricated structures built early in the 1980s must be replaced.
The investments in the health sector are aimed at achieving three main objectives -- reaching by 2025 the current health indicators of developed nations, eradicating disparities in regards health indicators between the provinces and developing a national health care plan.
As for private sector health investments, the minister pointed out that private clinics could not receive more than 6.24 per cent of the total beds. In this regard, he announced the inauguration of a Cuban hospital in Djelfa in March, with a capacity of 120 beds.
Three other such hospitals, under construction in Bechar, Ouargla and El Oued, would start by the end of this year and three more Cuban hospitals specializing in ophthalmology would come up be shortly in Setif, Tlemcen and Tamanrasset, he added.
In addition, he added, annual allocations for health went up from 77 dollars per person in 2004 to $171 in 2007 while the WHO index was $189 per person.
Health Minister Amar Tou told a press conference here after the Cabinet meeting that this investment "will help us bring in an additional 86,000 beds, replace 12,181 others in the old hospitals and build prefabricated hospitals".
Tou stressed that the old structures represented nine per cent of the current capacity and that the prefabricated structures built early in the 1980s must be replaced.
The investments in the health sector are aimed at achieving three main objectives -- reaching by 2025 the current health indicators of developed nations, eradicating disparities in regards health indicators between the provinces and developing a national health care plan.
As for private sector health investments, the minister pointed out that private clinics could not receive more than 6.24 per cent of the total beds. In this regard, he announced the inauguration of a Cuban hospital in Djelfa in March, with a capacity of 120 beds.
Three other such hospitals, under construction in Bechar, Ouargla and El Oued, would start by the end of this year and three more Cuban hospitals specializing in ophthalmology would come up be shortly in Setif, Tlemcen and Tamanrasset, he added.
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In addition, he added, annual allocations for health went up from 77 dollars per person in 2004 to $171 in 2007 while the WHO index was $189 per person.
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