Parliament has approved a 13,11,601.45 euro buyer-credit agreement between the government and ABN AMRO N.V Bank of the Netherlands to finance the “Accelerating Tuberculosis (TB) Case Detection” project in the country.<\/p>\n
It has also approved a waiver of import duty and other levies totalling GH\u00a22,496,670 on materials and equipment to be used for the project.<\/p>\n
The approval followed the presentation of the report of the Finance Committee of Parliament on the agreement by the Chairman of the Committee, Mr James Avedzi.<\/p>\n
Project objectives<\/strong> Mr Avedzi said the project would also boost the diagnostic capacity of the public-health system by distributing digital radiographic systems. Project components<\/strong> There would be supply and installation of information technology (IT) hardware and software to support the project.<\/p>\n Mr Avedzi said health professionals would be trained on the use and maintenance of the X-Ray systems, IT systems and laboratory equipment. Source: Graphic Online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Parliament has approved a 13,11,601.45 euro buyer-credit agreement between the government and ABN AMRO N.V Bank of the Netherlands to finance the “Accelerating Tuberculosis (TB) Case Detection” project in the country. It has also approved a waiver of import duty and other levies totalling GH\u00a22,496,670 on materials and equipment to be used for the project. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":97023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe project seeks to enhance TB control by reaching the World Health Organisation (WHO) target of 70 per cent detection and treatment of TB.<\/p>\n
\nIt would also enhance the diagnosis of non-TB cases, such as cancer and trauma.<\/p>\n
\nThe major components of the TB project, include the supply, installation, operation, technical support and maintenance of Diagnostic Digital X-Ray Systems.<\/p>\n
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