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.
Bangladesh Health Watch (BHW), a citizens' platform working as a watchdog to promote the health of Bangladesh citizens, organised a day-long conference on "The Emerging Challenges to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in Bangladesh". The conference was held on Saturday (3 December) at BRAC Centre Inn in Mohakhali, Dhaka, said a press
Economists, health experts and lawmakers at a programme said that the out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure could be lowered to 51% from the present 68% by raising the health budget allocation by three times and recruiting health workers in the vacant positions. "By tripling the allocations for the medical and surgical supplies sub-sector of the health budget and by filling up all