Sakib, an 11-year-old homeless child in Dhaka’s Farmgate area, calls the sidewalks his home. Begging for food and money for his grandmother, he sleeps adjacent to Ananda cinema hall every night.
The health ministry continues to struggle with utilisation of funds allocated in the national budget, like it did in the past few years. In the first 10 months of the current fiscal year of 2022-23, the ministry of health and family welfare has spent only 32.22 percent of its total Tk 12,189.77 crore allocation in the revised budget