THE overall state of healthcare in Bangladesh remains a matter of grave concern. With nearly 180 million people living within a landmass of just 147,570 square kilometres, Bangladesh is among the most densely populated nations in the world. Yet, more than two-thirds of its population, around 120 million people, have little or no access to standard health services...
Experts and policymakers at a discussion on Tuesday called for the establishment of an independent pay commission for Bangladesh鈥檚 health sector, stressing that fair salaries are crucial to improving service delivery and retaining skilled professionals...
Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Thursday sent controversial health sector contractor Motazzaroul Islam Mithu to jail in a case filed on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 75 crore...
Private healthcare entrepreneurs on Saturday at a discussion in Dhaka demanded an unregulated health sector, with prices of medicines and services left to the market forces.
Health rights activists at a discussion on Sunday demanded a high-powered taskforce and an independent commission to implement the proposals of the Health Sector Reform Commission...
PUBLIC health experts have put out a call in an open letter for the chief adviser to the interim government, seeking early action for the implementation of the recommendations of the reforms commission on the health sector. What is special about the event is that the experts who have put out the call were mostly members of the reforms commission, which the interim...
THE health sector reforms commission was formed to propose ways and means to develop a people-oriented, easily available universal healthcare system. 鈥楶eople-oriented care鈥� must fulfill people鈥檚 health needs with quality. This will be possible only...
The proposed budget for the financial year 2025-26 contains Tk 41,908 crore in allocation to the health and family welfare sector. The allocation is 5.3 per cent of the proposed total budget worth Tk7.9 lakh crore.
THE health sector reform report, of all the reforms commission reports, is better poised for a fast implementation, having faced little criticism and barriers as there is almost no contention about the report that recommends steps for the improvement in the health sector. What the authorities now need to do is to set strategic priorities and identify enablers and barriers to...
Setting strategic priorities and identifying enablers and barriers are immediate tasks for implementing the Health Sector Reform Commission鈥檚 recommendations, said experts at a seminar held on Tuesday...
THE recommendations of the health reforms commission, formed on November 18, 2024, in a report submitted to the government on May 5 after missing out its extended deadline of April 30, appear good steps towards ensuring health care as a fundamental right and improving the health services that have so far been in a deplorable condition. The prime among the...
The Health Sector Reform Commission on Monday recommended reforming the constitution to recognise primary healthcare as a fundamental right of the citizens, urging the interim government to ensure free primary healthcare...
Bangladesh Paediatric Association in a meeting in Dhaka has demanded the reform in the existing child healthcare sector of the country...
The health sector reform commission is set to recommend 鈥榚ffective鈥� referral and back-referral systems, connecting tertiary and grassroots health facilities.
More than 90 per cent of people in the country thinks that the government must contain the 鈥榚xtremely high鈥� expenses for affording medicines, diagnostics, surgery and doctor鈥檚 fee by setting limits on their prices, according to the public opinion survey on health sector reform 2025...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday announced proposals for health sector reform to ensure the right to free healthcare for all in the light of universal health coverage.
The Health Sector Reform Commission in 50 days of its formation is still gathering information and opinions on several focal areas such as service improvement while public health campaigners and medical practitioners demand free healthcare at all public health facilities...
Quality healthcare for people remained elusive throughout 2024 while the sector saw massive allegations of corruption and maltreatment in the first half of the year.
Health Sector Reform Commission head Professor AK Azad Khan has termed the practice of doctors receiving commissions from pharmaceutical companies as 鈥榰nethical and illegal鈥�. He said that...
Health rights activists, policy makers and experts at a discussion on Saturday said that the health sector reform should have a special focus on bringing universal primary healthcare coverage to people鈥檚 doorsteps...
Healthcare providers and the sector experts at a discussion on Thursday said that there were no significant negative health impacts from India鈥檚 suspension of visas after the July uprising for there were no lack of facilities in the health sector of the country...
The White Paper on the State of Bangladesh Economy finds rampant systematic corruption in health sector through procurement and supply chain management, outsourcing of services, and career mobility of young doctors....
PUBLICLY financed health services cover clinical, preventive and promotive services in many countries, including Bangladesh. But as people globally are more interested in instant relief from...
A REFORM agenda must precede the question 鈥� why reform? This question is, however, redundant when it relates to a dynamic sector such as health. As new knowledge on different aspects of healthcare science is generated constantly and society and beneficiaries also update their knowledge continuously, people鈥檚 needs and demands for health...
