{"id":63756,"date":"2020-04-07T14:03:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T09:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=63756"},"modified":"2020-04-07T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T09:03:49","slug":"sbp-eases-refinance-facility-requirements-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-eases-refinance-facility-requirements-hospitals.html","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 relief measures: SBP eases Refinance Facility requirements for hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) recently announced further modifications to its Refinance Facility (RFCC) for combatting COVID-19 \u2014 with the central bank now allowing hospitals and medical centres to avail financing against their existing equipment to purchase refurbished tools for deployment in the special facilities developed exclusively to deal with the ongoing pandemic, a news source reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/regulations-revised-facilitate-medica-equipment-import.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SBP revises regulations to facilitate import of medical equipment (opens in a new tab)\">SBP revises regulations to facilitate import of medical equipment<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The central bank had announced the facility on March 17, and it was meant to assist hospitals in meeting their financial needs. However, since the announcement, the central bank has received a number of suggestions to improve the facility, and these new measures have been announced based on those suggestions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-shares-details-businesses-exempted-from-section-144-notification.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Punjab govt shares details on businesses exempted from Section 144 notification (opens in a new tab)\">Punjab govt shares details on businesses exempted from Section 144 notification<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to improving the financing requirement, the bank\nhas also enhanced the minimum coverage of civil works for setting up an\nisolation facility from of 60% to up to 100%. At the same time, the State Bank\nhas also issued instructions to the banks to ensure that financing under the\nfacility is utilised for its intended purposes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) recently announced further modifications to its Refinance Facility (RFCC) for combatting COVID-19 \u2014 with the central bank now allowing hospitals and medical centres to avail financing against their existing equipment to purchase refurbished tools for deployment in the special facilities developed exclusively to deal with the ongoing pandemic, a news source reported. Read: SBP revises regulations to facilitate import of medical equipment The central bank had announced the facility on March 17, and it was meant to assist hospitals in meeting their financial needs. However, since the announcement, the central bank has received a number of suggestions to improve the facility, and these new measures have been announced based on those suggestions. Read: Punjab govt shares details on businesses exempted from Section 144 notification In addition to improving the financing requirement, the bank has also enhanced the minimum coverage of civil works for setting up an isolation facility from of 60% to up to 100%. At the same time, the State Bank has also issued instructions to the banks to ensure that financing under the facility is utilised for its intended purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":60606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[25498],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-covid-19-relief-measures-sbp-eases-refinance-facility-requirements-for-hospitals","9":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SBP eases refinance facility requirements for hospitals - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) recently announced further modifications to its Refinance Facility (RFCC) for combatting COVID-19 \u2014 with the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-eases-refinance-facility-requirements-hospitals.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SBP eases refinance facility requirements for hospitals - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) recently announced further modifications to its Refinance Facility (RFCC) for combatting COVID-19 \u2014 with the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-eases-refinance-facility-requirements-hospitals.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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