The National Health Grant is a new indirect grant for the health sector. The grant has two components, Health Facility Revitilisation component to support infrastructure projects and the National Health Insurance (NHI) component to support the national health insurance scheme pilot sites. The infrastructure component will be used to accelerate construction, maintenance, upgrading and rehabilitation of new and existing health infrastructure while the NHI component will be used to contract general practitioners from the private sector for national health insurance sites, strengthen patient information systems in selected central hospitals and develop and pilot alternative hospital reimbursement tools.