Press Release on October 11, 2009

Japan extends a US$93,361 grant in aid to build a new health care center in Al Diesah
 

The Government of Japan has decided to extend a Ninety Three thousand Three hundred Sixty One US Dollars (US$93,361) grant in aid to Municipality of Diesah and an agreement to that effect was signed on October 11, 2009 by Mr. Tetsuo Shioguchi, Ambassador of Japan to Jordan and Mr. Sa’ed Khalaf Al-Zawaydeh, head of Diesah Municipality.

Diesah Municipality consists of 5 villages is located to the northeast of Wadi Rum which is famous world wide as a touristic site. The project will be implemented in Ghal Village which is one of the 5 villages in Diesah.

According to the Municipality, Ghal Village has not had enough facility and equipment for health and medical care and the local community of the area have not been able to be provided by the appropriate medical service for a long time. Today’s assistance will

be used to build a new Health Care Center.

This area is also part of a project site in which JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) has been implementing the technical cooperation project ‘Integrated Women's Health and Empowerment Project in the South Region’.  This Grass-roots Human Security Project (GGP) is expected to improve the condition of health and medical services in Ghal Village in collaboration with technical cooperation project.

This grant is provided within the framework of Japanese Grant Assistance for GGP. Japan has donated more than US$ 6.7 million for 117 projects to nongovernmental organizations, schools, hospitals and local governments in Jordan for the last 15 years.

The total amount of Japanese economic cooperation which has been extended to the people in Jordan for the last decades is more than 3 Billion United States dollars (US$ 3,000,000,000), more than Two Billion Jordan Dinar (2,000,000,000 JD).

As for the area of health, the Japanese Government has supported the improvement of medical system in providing ambulances and equipment at various hospitals in order to enhance the accessibility to the medical care in all areas.  The recent projects supported by the Japanese Government are as follows,

- The project for supporting the prevention of breast cancer to the health center in 2004 (87,617USD)

- The project for supporting the prevention of breast cancer to the King Hussein Cancer Foundation in 2005 (91,250USD)

 -The project for the improvement of medical equipment for the labors clinic in 2005 (57,193USD)

- The project for provision of medical equipment to hospital in Karak and Ma’an and Al-Basheer Hospital in 2006 (4,500,000USD)

- The project for provision of medical equipment to clinic in Al-Wehdat Camp in 2007 (78,535USD)

- The project for provision of medical equipment to clinic in Husn Camp in 2007 (78,843USD)