In 2020, more than 250 million francs were paid out to health facilities as part of the free healthcare scheme for children and pregnant women. The announcement was made by , Director General of the Universal Health Coverage Agency (Acmu), on the bangs of a tour...
In a Law adopted on December 2, 2020 No.379-VІ ЗРК, Government of Kazakhstan has approved "Republican budget for years 2021-2023" - which outlines all state (public) funds for the three-year budget cycle. In this publicly available document, the Attachment No.5...
UNICEF has shared its Health Budget Brief 2020 for Tanzania Mainland.
UNICEF has shared its Health Budget Brief 2020 for Zanzibar.
Kenya has adopted its Health Sector Partnership and Coordination Framework, which is geared to improve communication and coordination between development partners and the Kenyan government on both national and county levels. It includes thematic Interagency...
In Singapore, the most apparent cost of this epidemic is the cost of providing direct medical care and public health services such as screening tests and ICU (intensive care unit) care for those affected. Since the indirect and intangible losses are not easy to...
The Health Ministry is looking to reorganize the system of hospital care subsidies to benefit those that need financial help with their medical bills. This essentially means a switch from basing subsidies on an individual’s income to per capita household income (PCHI)...
In the past eight years Singapore has consistently increased the share of health in the national budget by and average of 1.2% from 2013 onwards. In Parliament, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong assured the House that primary healthcare will be strengthened...
In response to the recent increase of COVID 19, the Mongolian government initiated a mass testing campaign, the so-called “One door-one test” (ODOT), which utilised PCR assays to test one family member (age>18) from each of the 420,000 households in the capital...
With a capacity to treat 1,500 patients a year, the center will be able to treat a number of cancers on site, including cervical, prostate, lung, rectal, esophageal and stomach cancers, according to the Ministry of Health. A radiotherapy center built by the State of...
The Nepal government has allocated Rs 90.69 billion for the health sector for the upcoming fiscal year, around 32 percent more than previous fiscal when Rs 68.78 billion was set aside under the heading. Although the health sector’s share of the pie has increased to...
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa announced a boost to the public health sector in light of the extended needs demanded by the COVID-19 Pandemic. He allocated an additional Rs. 18bn for expansion of health facilities to tackle COVID-19 and resultant health...
The Thai cabinet approved an increase in the universal healthcare budget for 2022 to 205 billion baht, 4.4% higher than this year. Under the new budget, health coverage will reach 47.9 million people in the universal healthcare scheme, meaning an increase to just...
Bangladesh has one of the best health networks in the public sector. However, shortage and skill-mix imbalance of human resources, limitations in equipment, medicines and other supplies deter obtaining adequate benefits from these resources. Public expenditure on...
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...
