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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.
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