The World Bank will not be disbursing the second tranche of a USD 75 mn loan it had pledged to the Health Ministry in January 2016, Deputy Health Minister Sayed El Shahed told the press on Tuesday, without providing any reasoning, Al Borsa reports. The WB had already sent out the first USD 40 mn tranche. The loan was meant to help develop medical services at some 1,300 clinics in five governorates.

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