EU launches project worth €1.3 mln to strengthen Georgia’s blood safety system
The EU announced the launch of the project earlier today. Photo: EU in Georgia press office.
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The EU has launched a twinning project in Georgia, worth 1.3 million EUR, to strengthen the blood safety system in Georgia –providing support to public health policies and programmes, particularly in the field of communicable diseases and blood transfusion.
The Georgian Health Ministry, the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, the National Public Health Laboratory of Lithuania, and the Sanquin Blood Supply Foundation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands will implement the project.
The project also aims to revise and update laws in the field of blood safety and assess the blood banks.
Per the project, Lithuanian and Dutch specialists will assist Georgia in strengthening national capacity, reorganising the blood transfusion service, creating new laboratory potential and transitioning to a voluntary blood donation model.
Upcoming plans consider retraining human resources by experts from the project’s partner countries.
Georgia will receive €150 million in macro-financial assistance from the European Council to help the country ‘cope with the economic fallout’ of the COVID-19 pandemic. Georgia is among the ten enlargement and neighbourhood partners of the European Union which will receive the assistance ‘in the form of loans on highly favourable terms’.
The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a COVID-19 support package for Georgia comprised of €150 million to help the country limit the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
The European Union (EU) is launching three new projects for environmental protection and climate change in Georgia, announces the Delegation of the European Union to Georgia.
Georgia’s Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture and the European Union have launched a new project aimed at raising support for the environmental sector in the country.
The European Union has allocated €100 mln to support Georgia amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The European Union has mobilised 1.5 billion GEL to support Georgia during the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020. This is ‘one of the highest levels of EU assistance per capita to any country in the world and demonstrates the EU’s strong solidarity with Georgia at this time of unprecedented crisis’.
The EU has disbursed a €60 million grant as part of the EU’s €75 million Covid-19 Resilience Contract for Georgia to assist in the implementation of the government’s Anti-Crisis Economic Plan, announces the EU Delegation to Georgia.