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DAR ES SALAAM, July 24 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank on Monday expressed concern over what it described as laxity by East Africa's ministries of health in healthcare financing.


Khama Rogo, the World Bank's Head of Health in Africa Initiative, said poor financing in healthcare made countries in the region to fail to fulfill the healthcare benchmarks such as the Abuja Declaration which called for committing 15 percent of African governments' budget to healthcare.


Rogo told the East Africa Health Federation Conference in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam that governments in the region needed to come into dialogue with the World Bank on how to better finance the health sector and how to stop people from dying of preventable diseases.


"Every time I hear in East Africa that a person has died of cholera Taco Charlton Youth Jersey , I agonize. Every time I hear that a leader in East Africa is traveling abroad for treatment, my heart stops," he said.


"Under such conditions, my heart cannot be healthy. We at World Bank are ready to help work with governments to sort out why healthcare financing is still facing challenges," Rogo told the conference that attracted 400 private healthcare leaders from East Africa and . Cheap Throwback Jerseys Cheap Custom Jerseys Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NHL Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China Wholesale Soccer Jerseys Wholesale NHL Jerseys From China Wholesale NBA Jerseys Free Shipping Wholesale Authentic MLB Jerseys Wholesale Nike NCAA Jerseys