The Italian government has donated some hospital equipment as well as one ambulance to a monk hospital in Myanmar's former capital of Yangon as part of its aid to the country in the health sector, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Saturday.
The 22 items of equipment, which worth about 195,000 U.S dollars, were handed over to the Jivitadana Sangha Hospital under the program of Support the Vulnerable Population Myanmar Aid, the sources said.
Meanwhile, the Italian government has earlier agreed to provide 5.28 million U.S. dollars for use in rehabilitation and paddy cultivation work in
Myanmar's cyclone-hit areas through the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The aid will be used in implementing three projects on sustainable small-scale fisheries and aquaculture livelihood in coastal mangrove
ecosystem, support to special rice production and support to the immediate rehabilitation of farming, coastal fisheries and aquaculture livelihood in the Nargis-affected areas. A total of over 32,000 poor fishermen in cyclone-hit Ayeyawaddy division will be benefited, it said.