Bangladesh’s current per capita health expenditure is 2.5 percent of the GDP, the lowest in South Asia, and the public has to bear a large share of that expenditure due to low government spending on the health sector.
Only 36 per cent of the 8.25 lakh tonnes of plastic waste Bangladesh produced in 2019 were recycled whereas the amount was 51 per cent in 2006, a matter of big concern for the country, an expert said today.
The government should expand its social safety net programmes in urban areas, where the coverage is extremely insufficient compared to that of rural areas, according to experts.