Patna: The Bihar Government on Tuesday signed a MoC (MOC) with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Gates Foundation), as a part of where the foundation would provide technical support to choose the Government Department for the next five years, effective March 2026.
MOC , signed on the presence of August Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Deputy CMS Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi, and Minister of Health Mangal Pandey.
The MOC focuses on developing institutional capacity to maintain transformative progress in Bihar over the past decade.
The state government and the Gates Foundation first signed the MOC in 2010, which was extended in 2016 and continued until March 2021.
The signatories to the MOC are currently Secretary of State Tripurari Advice and Foundation Gates the Menon Day Foundation.
The Secretary of the Head of the State (Health) of Pratyaya Amrit, “This will help us design, build, and provide technical support to operationalize open sources, digital public health platforms”.
Menon Day, Director, Foundation Gates, said, “Bihar has made significant progress in increasing various health, social and development indicators for the population.
We are honored to continue this trip with the country, and support this job further, to help improve health , and nutritional results, and reduce the burden of disease and poverty, by enabling livelihoods and access to quality services, in line with the country development goals.
“” Through MOC, Gates Foundation will provide technical support to the Ministry of Health, social welfare, agriculture and development Rustic especially Jeevika, Finance and Planning, “said Dr.
Hemant Shah, a senior Gates Foundation official told Ti on Tuesday.
The two parties have agreed that significant steps are needed to improve the range of range, coverage, quality and health services, nutrition and sanitation, agriculture productivity, financial inclusion and gender equality in the state of Bihar to ensure progress on sustainable development goals (SDG) 2030 , he said.
“Another goal of the MOC is to reduce the morbidity and mortality of mothers, neonatal, infants and children, needs that are not fulfilled for special contraception for low parity pairs and for reversible spaces / methods, increasing maternal and child nutrition, including anemia, reducing stunting and increasing The results of sanitation by providing techno-managerial support to each department in the state government “, communiques issued by the foundation.
“The focus will also eliminate infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, visceral leishmaniasis and lymphatic filariasis and build state institutional capacity to conduct research on diseases such as the syndrome of acute encephalitis and visceral leishmaniasis,” said Dr.
Rah.