World Bank finances Caldwell hospital expansion in Liberia
The World Bank has approved a $54 million International Development Association credit to improve health service delivery to women, children, and adolescents in Liberia.
The Institutional Foundations to Improve Services for Health project will support the expansion of the new Redemption Hospital in Caldwell, rural Montserrado County.
The hospital is the largest provider of secondary level services in the country but currently functions at maximum capacity. Construction at the new site started in mid-2018 with a focus on maternal health and child health.
The approved scale-up financing will ensure that the new site also provides services in surgery and internal medicine and that the hospital is fully equipped and operational.
The project aims to reduce the number of women dying in pregnancy, improve the health, wellbeing, and survival of the adolescent girl, and contribute to the improvement of Liberia’s Human Capital Index.
