The World Bank is helping Albanians establish a health care system that is accessible, affordable and efficient. It is also helping reduce illnesses by improving poor peoples’ access to health care. For example, 115 national primary health care centers have been built in the poorest areas o f the country. Also, World Bank financing helped improve services in three hospitals, and a masterplan has been completed for the further development of the "Mother Teresa” University Hospital Center in Tirana. The World Bank is also advising
on health care decentralization.