1. Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs Invest in Georgian Health System

2. Major Directions in Health Reform – Updated infrastructure – Comprehensive Health Information System – Efficient and effective management of public funds – Sufficient human resources – Protection of the patient’s rights 2

3. Georgia Demographic and health status Trends Overall health Status in Georgian fell following independence and only began to recover at the beginning of the 21 st Century. Although still high by international comparison, maternal mortality rates have improved from 55.1/100 000 live births in 1995 to 14.4 in 2008 and for infant mortality from 41/1000 live births in 1990 to 26 in 2008 respectively. Cardiovascular diseases are leading cause of mortality, accounting for 55.2% followed by malignancies at 10.8%. Average life expectancy has decreased from 72.9 years (1990) to 70.3 in 1995, but rose again to 76.9 years in 2010 (men 73.6 and women 80.6 years) Life expectancy is higher than the WHO Europeans Region average of 75.0 years.

4. Georgian Health Care System - Growing Industry Source: MoLHSA

5. Trends of Public Health Expenditures Source: MoLHSA

6.  Building up / renovating infrastructure for 102 hospitals throughout the country  Creating more than 8000 new bed-capacity  Re-shaping Primary Health Care system on regional, district and village level  Strengthening pre-hospital care  Updating standards and licensing system for health facilities  Private ownership and management of the hospitals 6 Infrastructure

7.  Government investments – 22 hospitals  Private insurance companies – 46 hospitals  Other private donors (Canada, UK, Israel, Poland, Czech Republic) – more 10 hospitals 103 million USD  International donors(USAID, WB) – 4 hospitals  Small, medium-size and large hospitals with 20% of high-tech bed capacity by April 2012  overall 2 Billion GEL investment in health sector 7 Infrastructure

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