By SPA
Islamabad : The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has announced $41 million funding for Pakistan’s healthcare system, said a statement of the British High Commission (embassy) in Islamabad.
Of the funding, $30 million would be used to support National Health Facility (NHF) and $11 million to strengthen National Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (NMNCH) project in Pakistan.
The statement said the British government estimated that the two programmes could save lives of around 65,000 children and 5,000 mothers, and protect 32 million children from polio in 2008 alone.
The DFID’s $167 million worth of support for NHF over the last five years had considerably reduced the number of deaths in children in the corresponding period.