PUBLIC health system stands at a crossroads. For a country that has made significant strides in maternal and child health and lowered infectious disease burdens, a deep contradiction now threatens to jeopardise further progress: the paradox of low public financing coupled with low budget utilisation. In plain terms, not only is Bangladesh spending too little on health...
HOSPITALS are the preferred choices in the health system, both by policymakers and the populace, due to their grand visibility. But are hospitals that deal with sick people able to deliver the whole spectrum of health services effectively and efficiently? Often 鈥榤edical鈥� perception prevails over 鈥榟ealth鈥� care when 鈥榤edical鈥� is only a part of overall 鈥榟ealth鈥� care. Hospitals...
TODAY is World Pharmacists Day. The day marks the anniversary of the inception of the International Pharmaceutical Federation, FIP, in 1912 and was adopted by the FIP Council, made up of pharmacy leaders from throughout the world, at their congress in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2009. Since then, World Pharmacists Day has been celebrated...