Press Release on February 15, 2010

Japan grants $90,296 for supporting the Project for the Improvement of Medical Equipment for Al Hussein Labor Clinics
 

The Government of Japan has decided to extend a Ninety Thousand Two hundred Ninety Six US dollars (US$90,296) grant in aid to Al Hussein Labor Clinics and an agreement to that effect was signed on February 15, 2010 by His Excellency Mr. Tetsuo Shioguchi, Ambassador of Japan to Jordan and Mr. Khalid Zahir Al Fanatseh, President of the General Union of Jordanian Miners, Workers in Mining and Metal Industries and Chairman of Al Hussein Labor Clinics.

Al Hussein Labor Clinics, under the umbrella of ‘General Union of Jordanian Miners, Workers in Mining and Metal Industries’ has five clinics to provide the high-quality medical service to the labor in Amman (Ragadan, Al Hashmi Al Shamali, Na’oor), Zarqa and Karak since 1974. The grant is to be donated to Ragadan Clinic for installing the new medical equipment.

This grant aid is the second one by the Embassy to the Clinics. The first grant aid in 2005 was for Al Hashmi Al Shamali Clinic at Fifty Seven thousand One hundred Ninety Three US dollars (US$ 57,193).

These grants are provided within the framework of Japanese Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Projects (GGP).

Japan has donated more than US$ 6.7 million for 118 projects to nongovernmental organizations, schools, hospitals and local governments in Jordan for the last 16 years.

Including those projects under the GGP, 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 Jordanian Dinars (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 under the GGP.  The recent GGP projects supported by the Japanese Government are following:

- 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)

- The project for Construction of Health Center in Ghal village, Diesah in 2009 (93,361USD)

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