Sector Strategy
Modern healthcare infrastructure for access, quality and resilience
Regional facilities, diagnostics, digital health and domestic medical supply.
National Challenge
What currently constrains the sector
Regional facilities frequently operate with interrupted power, limited diagnostic capability and equipment that cannot be serviced locally, which pushes patients toward already-loaded urban hospitals. Specialist procedures often require overseas treatment, which is costly for patients and represents an outflow of health expenditure.
NBP Strategy
Healthcare: the approach
Standardise the modernization package applied across regional facilities — reliable power, water, diagnostics, equipment servicing and digital records — because facility-by-facility procurement costs more and complicates maintenance. Assess concentrated specialist capacity separately, since it depends on case volume that only concentration provides.
Priority Programs
Program pillars across healthcare
Each pillar is a programme area, not a committed project. Individual initiatives appear in the national pipeline with their own readiness and data-confidence levels.
Regional Hospitals
Modernization of the facilities carrying the regional caseload.
Healthcare City
A concentrated campus combining specialist care, diagnostics, training and research.
Specialist Centers
Units for procedures currently requiring treatment abroad.
Diagnostics
Imaging and laboratory capability at the point of first presentation.
Digital Health
Records and referral systems that follow the patient between facilities.
Telemedicine
Specialist consultation reaching facilities without a resident specialist.
Emergency Response
Transport and triage capability across the referral network.
Medical Laboratories
Reference laboratory capacity supporting diagnosis and public health surveillance.
Pharmaceutical Production
Domestic formulation reducing exposure to supply interruption.
Medical Supply Chains
Distribution and cold chain for medicines and consumables.
Biomedical Equipment Services
Servicing capability, without which installed equipment falls out of use.
Medical Training
Clinical and technical training aligned to the facilities being built.
Related Projects
Initiatives in this sector
Programs recorded in the national pipeline that address this sector.
To be determined
Continental Healthcare City Program
A concept for a concentrated healthcare campus combining specialist care, diagnostics, medical training and research.
Multi-country
Regional Health Infrastructure Modernization Program
Modernization of regional hospitals and district facilities, addressing power, water, diagnostics, equipment servicing and digital records.
To be determined
Local Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Program
A program assessing domestic manufacturing capacity for essential medicines and medical supplies to internationally recognised quality standards.
Related Sectors
Investment
Opportunities in this sector, with readiness and capital requirement stated per initiative.
Research
What NBP is monitoring, studying and piloting across the technologies relevant to this sector.
Regional Opportunities
Initiatives mapped by region, so sector activity can be read against geography.