Japan hands over medical equipment to JAFPP

AMMAN — Japan on Wednesday handed over medical equipment to Jordanian Association for Family Planning and Protection (JAFPP), according to a statement from the embassy.

The ceremony was held at the JAFPP clinic in Amman with Shuichi Sakurai, ambassador of Japan, and Abed Mansi, vice president of JAFPP, in attendance. In 2016, Japan extended to JAFPP a grant in total of $79,166 to finance a project titled “The Project for the Improvement of Medical Equipment for Health Clinics”, according to the statement.

The overall objective of the project is to strengthen JAFPP health clinics’ capacity to provide adequate and good quality reproductive healthcare services to vulnerable people of Jordan, Syrians and other nationalities. Under Japanese Grant Assistance for Grass-Roots Human Security Projects, Tokyo has extended more than $9 million  for 140 projects to nongovernmental organisations, schools, hospitals, and local governments in Jordan since 1993, the statement said.