Overview
- The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors cleared the Kerala Health System Improvement Programme with $280 million in IBRD support.
- The loan has a 25-year final maturity with a five-year grace period.
- Kerala will expand e-health services, integrate data platforms, and strengthen cybersecurity to enable individual electronic tracking for hypertension and diabetes, targeting support for over 90 percent of registered patients.
- The programme introduces home-based care for bedbound and vulnerable elderly and builds a multilevel trauma and emergency network serving about 8.5 million people.
- Primary facilities in Wayanad, Kozhikode, Kasaragod, Palakkad, and Alappuzha will adopt climate-led upgrades, with targets including a 40 percent rise in controlled hypertension and a 60 percent increase in cervical and breast cancer screening.