Denmark donates US $93 million for health-care facilities

The Danish government has given Tanzania a 560 million kroner (US $93 million) grant to support its health-care services for the next five years, Tanzanian and Danish officials said in a joint statement. "The support will go towards improving the quality of services offered, including rehabilitation of public hospitals, health centres and dispensaries," Mariam Mwaffisi, the permanent secretary of the health ministry, said following the signing of the grant agreement in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday. In the past eight years Tanzania has received 840 million kroner from Denmark to finance the implementation of the country's Health Sector Programme Support (HSPS). The HSPS focuses on improving access to health care for the poor, which includes rehabilitating public health centres and providing them with medical equipment. The programme is divided into three phases, with the country now entering the third and final medical-rehabilitation stage.