"Strengthening the health care system and preserving life" (HEAL Ukraine)

The project is aimed at ensuring better access to new urgent areas of help (psychiatric care and rehabilitation services), will contribute to the improvement of the health of the population in the short and long term, which will enable more productive employment and increase well-being both at the individual level and at the level of society as a whole, providing financial protection against high out-of-pocket costs for health care.

The project will bring special benefits to low-income individuals, from whom such expenses take a significant share of income.

In addition to supporting the provision of priority health care services, and thus the preservation of accumulated human capital, support for national institutions of the health sector will help preserve the institutional capacity of Ukraine to ensure full recovery and sustainable reconstruction after the end of the war.

Part 1 will fund activities: aimed at strengthening and reconfiguring the delivery methods of rehabilitation and mental health services to better respond to the current crisis situation and create better delivery platforms services in the future, in particular: purchase of necessary equipment and vehicles to support rehabilitation services; conducting restorative work in institutions providing services in the field of mental health care and rehabilitation, training medical staff of health care institutions at the inpatient and outpatient level, providing technical support to the Ministry of Health and the National Health Service of Ukraine (NHSHU) in determining the scope and development of service provision standards at the inpatient and outpatient levels; updating procedures for checking electronic medical records; development of concepts and plans for the modernization of services in the field of mental health care and rehabilitation at the level of primary and specialized medical care.

Part 2 provides for: the purchase of equipment and the satisfaction of other needs of primary care facilities, as well as the performance of repair work to restore the functioning of primary care facilities, selected in accordance with the criteria set forth in the Operational Manual of the project of restoration and provision of equipment to 80 damaged PHC facilities in need of major repairs and procurement and installation of solar panels in at least 100 PHC sites selected according to the criteria set out in the Operational Manual Designing, Training and Deploying Mobile Teams to Provide Basic Health Services in the Most Affected Areas the current emergency situation, as well as in remote areas, the development of a medium-term plan for the recovery and reconstruction of the primary health care network in Ukraine, including the development of technical specifications for the new expanded model of primary health care or "PMSD Plus".

Part 3 provides, in particular:  development of sectoral planning of the hospital network, technical specifications and project documentation to support in the selection of hospitals to be repaired and in carrying out repair works, restoration of individual hospitals using technical specifications prepared in accordance with Part 3 (a), which may include, among other things, improving energy efficiency and providing access to alternative energy sources, constructing new buildings as part of existing facilities that do not require the acquisition of new land, strengthening pre-hospital emergency services by, in particular, procurement of vehicles and relevant equipment and construction works for emergency medical care centers.

Measures of part 4 of the project will be aimed at:

Development of electronic health care and digital innovations, in particular, implementation of digitization projects that will improve efficiency, transparency and control over the provision of services and make health care services more convenient for users. Establishing standardization of service quality and technical assistance with development of the potential of key health care institutions. Providing support to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine for the implementation and management of the project.