Health Enhancement and Life-Saving in Ukraine

The CEB’s loan in the form of Public sector Financing Facility (PFF) will support the Health Enhancement and Life-Saving (HEAL) project, a $500 million framework operation developed by the World Bank. The Loan is targeted to finance activities under four main components: (1) Addressing new and urgent health needs for mental health and rehabilitation; (2) Further improving and strengthening primary health care; (3) Restoring and modernising hospital care in line with reform direction and (4) Supporting capacity-building, digitalisation, and innovations. In terms of concrete activities, this means financing equipment and vehicles to support rehabilitation services; renovation work in facilities providing mental health and rehabilitation services; purchase of equipment and Primary Health Care (PHC) infrastructure restoration and renovation of hospitals with improved energy efficiency.