Japan Government Support to Georgia's Healthcare System
Wednesday, September 29
On September 28, Ambassador of Japan, H.E. IMAMURA Akira held press conference for the project for providing medical equipment for strengthening the Healthcare System of Georgia. Within the project worth 2.8 million USD, Government of Japan provided Georgia with 110 defibrillators and 155 electro-cardiographs, which will help monitor key parameters of severe patients' condition and help save lives in the middle of pandemic and beyond. Equipment is particularly important as it is known that Covid patients are at a higher risk of developing heart failure, regardless of previous condition. It is especially important in the context when overcrowding of hospital beds may cause the need for temporary stay of the patients in the ambulances.
This is the second large-scale support package provided to Georgia by Japan within the past year, first one being 2.5 million USD project provided through Asian Development Bank's Natural Disaster Response Fund. Earlier in the year, Japan also provided 4 emergency C-type reanomobiles to Georgia worth 290'500 USD, in addition to making one of the largest contributions (1 billion USD) to the COVAX platform, enabling more equal access to vaccines for the developing countries like Georgia.
