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The World Bank has supported structural changes in Ukraine's medicine sector, and under a grant project has provided $4.5 million of financing to improve the healthcare system in Volyn region, Head of Volyn Regional Administration Borys Klymchuk has said.

The press service of Volyn Regional Administration reported that Klymchuk gave the information at a meeting on Tuesday.

The report says that in late 2012 the World Bank jointly with the
Ukrainian Health Ministry started drawing up a four-year project on the
reformation of regional healthcare systems.

Volyn was one of 11 regions in Ukraine for which the project was approved.

Over two years the region will receive $4.5 million.

The head of the chief healthcare department at Volyn Regional
Administration Ihor Vascheniuk said that the project covers the whole
sector and it will be realized in three directions: the preventive
measures (heat disease, cancer, diabetes, respiratory tract diseases),
the improvement of the quality of the provision of medical services and
the structural rebuilding of medicine in the region (the creation of new
hospitals and their equipping).