Health Minister meets WB officials

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Minister of Health A.Tsogtsetseg received Tuesday the World Bank Country Manager for Mongolia James Anderson and senior economist Aparnaa Somanathan along with other officials. Mr Anderson briefed about the World Bank’s ongoing mission for assessing implementation of the E-Health Project. The Minister underlined the ministry highly recognizes an importance of the project and advised to attach more focus on the project’s coherence with other similar projects. Ms Somanathan said the site visit to the local health centers and family hospitals has helped obtain realistic information and detect main problems regarding the operations of medical equipment, IT system and current state of information sharing between and within the health organizations. Minister A.Tsogtsetseg promised to support the project implementation through all possible means.