This is covered under component 1 of the programme, ‘Organisation and consolidation of integrated health services networks’.

This component will, among other things, finance the purchase of medical equipment and the improvement of infrastructure for primary health care services in the catchment areas of three priority hospitals to increase their capacity in health promotion and disease prevention, especially regarding chronic NCDs.

The focus in this component is also to strengthen the diagnostic and screening capability as well as the clinical and resolutive capacity of health clinics.

Ultimately, the intention is to provide for a more rational utilisation of health sector resources and to facilitate the more efficient distribution of cases according to complexity, with clinics and health centres attending to primary care patients while hospitals concentrate more exclusively on the higher complexity cases.