WORLD BANK TO AID MEDICINE DISTRIBUTION IN BANGLADESH
October 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank is financing a US dollar USD359 million health service improvement programme in Bangladesh, which will strengthen the country's pharmaceutical distribution. The bank said the project would especially focus its efforts on the deprived areas of Sylhet and Chittagong. A key nationwide goal would be increasing to 90% the rate of child measles immunisation.
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THE WORLD Bank is financing a US dollar USD359 million health service improvement programme in Bangladesh, which will strengthen the country's pharmaceutical distribution. The bank said the project would especially focus its efforts on the deprived areas of Sylhet and Chittagong. A key nationwide goal would be increasing to 90% the rate of child measles immunisation.
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