Health Care Reform in Georgia

Georgia aims to improve the quality, usage and coverage of its health care with help from international donors, including the World Bank. As part of an ambitious reform program, the government is giving specialized training to hundreds of primary care doctors and nurses.

Apart from the training the Bank has also supported both the renovation and construction of Primary Health Care facilities, and has helped to equip them. Adjara autonomous republic was the first pilot region where the new facilities were introduced.

The Bank-supported project covered almost the whole region with newly refurbished or, in some instances, newly constructed and equipped facilities, as well as trained medical personnel.

The emergency medicine course taught at Batumi Family Medicine Training Centre in western Georgia is part of an overhaul of primary care that includes intensive retraining of physicians and nurses. Courses of all kinds have been designed. Nurses are learning how to care for patients at home. Training centres outside the capital make it easier for doctors in remote or rural areas to attend. Newly trained village doctors become medical ‘Jack-of-All-Trades.’

Source: http://go.worldbank.org/5HGH770V50