San Marino Ceb Tender

The Council of Europe Development Bank CEB has approved 10 million support to San Marino to support the Governments efforts to adequately respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.The CEB loan will support the further reorganisation of the public hospital and the purchase of additional medical and pharmaceutical equipment supplies and consumables. San Marinos hospitalisation capacity will thus improve to 20 ICU and 70 coronavirus-dedicated beds while medical supplies such as diagnostic tests will help with containing another potential outbreak. In addition the loan will cover disinfection services and costs incurred to isolate wards as a result of the new hospital set-up.CEB Governor Rolf Wenzel said We are pleased to be able to help San Marino to respond to the ongoing health crisis and to make their public health system more resilient when faced with similar emergencies. In line with the CEBs mandate the investments will protect the most vulnerable such as the elderly and the people with previous pathologies will mitigate the risk of another outbreak and will thus contribute to the countrys economic recovery.Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak public emergency healthcare in San Marino relied on a single state hospital with six intensive care unit ICU beds and a patient referral system with the neighbouring regions of Emilia Romagna and Marche in Italy. The hospital did not have an infectious disease department. The pandemic greatly challenged in-country and cross-border capacities and forced the Government through the Institute of Social Security to reorganise the existing hospital.