World Bank funds Save One Million Lives Project with N140bn

The World Bank has funded the Saving One Million Lives (SOML) Project for Result with the sum of N140 billion.

The Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, who disclosed this yesterday in Abuja at the launch and symbolic disbursement of initial grant to states on “Saving One Million Lives Project for Result,” said that the intervention is to tackle six pillars of health, namely, childhood essential medicines and increasing treatment of important childhood diseases, maternal, newborn and child health, improving child nutrition, immunisation, malaria control and elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV.

Nation, July 16

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