As the 2016 Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 (GSHRH) outlines, health systems can only function with health workforce (HWF). Bangladesh is committed to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) hence a comprehensive understanding of the existing HWF was deemed necessary informing policy and funding decisions to the health system. The health labour market analysis (HLMA) framework for UHC cited in the GSHRH was adopted to analyse the supply, need and demand of all health workers in Bangladesh. Government’s information systems provided data to document the public sector HWF. A national-level assessment (2019) based on a country representative sample of 133 geographical units, served to estimate the composition and distribution of the private sector HWF. Descriptive statistics served to characterize the formal and informal HWF. The density of doctors, nurses and midwives in Bangladesh was only 9.9 per 10 000 population, well below the indicative
Authorities at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday advised patients suffering from conjunctivitis to come to the airport with a doctor’s prescription and necessary medicines before traveling abroad.
Authorities at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport today (September 27, 2022) advised patients suffering from conjunctivitis to come to the airport with a doctor's prescription and necessary medicines before traveling abroad.
Around six to seven thousand young teenagers from Jammu and Kashmir have gone to Bangladesh to pursue their higher medical studies with dreams of becoming doctors