As Bangladesh shows a decreasing trend in healthcare budget over the years, the lack of healthcare services to the vast majority of its financially disadvantaged population becomes more and more evident.
The government has consistently been allocating about 5% of the fiscal budget to health care and this is clearly not enough. Out of pocket expenditure in healthcare rose to 71% in 2015 from 60% in 2008. In 2019, the OOP expenditure on healthcare in Bangladesh stood at 67 per cent, which this study claims is the highest among South Asian countries.
The paper by Minhazur Rahman Reszvi originally published in the South Asia Journal attempts to analyze the trend in budget allocation in the health sector in Bangladesh and identifies the social implications that the resultant loss of health is having on its population.
Read the original research paper here.
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