BPA demands reform in child health sector
Bangladesh Paediatric Association in a meeting in Dhaka has demanded the reform in the existing child healthcare sector of the country...
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HEALTH SECTOR REFORM:聽Commission for referral, back-referral system
The health sector reform commission is set to recommend 鈥榚ffective鈥� referral and back-referral systems, connecting tertiary and grassroots health facilities.
HEALTH SECTOR REFORM: People for fixed charges for health service: BBS survey
More than 90 per cent of people in the country thinks that the government must contain the 鈥榚xtremely high鈥� expenses for affording medicines, diagnostics, surgery and doctor鈥檚 fee by setting limits on their prices, according to the public opinion survey on health sector reform 2025...
BNP for free health care聽for all
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday announced proposals for health sector reform to ensure the right to free healthcare for all in the light of universal health coverage.
Campaigners seek free healthcare
The Health Sector Reform Commission in 50 days of its formation is still gathering information and opinions on several focal areas such as service improvement while public health campaigners and medical practitioners demand free healthcare at all public health facilities...
Looking back 2024: Corruption, poor service keep hurting health sector
Quality healthcare for people remained elusive throughout 2024 while the sector saw massive allegations of corruption and maltreatment in the first half of the year.
Doctors鈥� cuts from pharmas unethical, illegal, says聽HSRC chief
Health Sector Reform Commission head Professor AK Azad Khan has termed the practice of doctors receiving commissions from pharmaceutical companies as 鈥榰nethical and illegal鈥�. He said that...
Reform should focus on bringing healthcare to doorstep: discussion
Health rights activists, policy makers and experts at a discussion on Saturday said that the health sector reform should have a special focus on bringing universal primary healthcare coverage to people鈥檚 doorsteps...
No health impact from India鈥檚 visa restriction: discussion
Healthcare providers and the sector experts at a discussion on Thursday said that there were no significant negative health impacts from India鈥檚 suspension of visas after the July uprising for there were no lack of facilities in the health sector of the country...
White Paper finds systematic corruption in health sector
The White Paper on the State of Bangladesh Economy finds rampant systematic corruption in health sector through procurement and supply chain management, outsourcing of services, and career mobility of young doctors....
Creation of public health infrastructure
PUBLICLY financed health services cover clinical, preventive and promotive services in many countries, including Bangladesh. But as people globally are more interested in instant relief from...
Thoughts on health sector reforms
A REFORM agenda must precede the question 鈥� why reform? This question is, however, redundant when it relates to a dynamic sector such as health. As new knowledge on different aspects of healthcare science is generated constantly and society and beneficiaries also update their knowledge continuously, people鈥檚 needs and demands for health...