{"id":987521824,"date":"2021-06-24T03:09:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T02:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/bangladesh-boosts-health-budget-by-4-but-analysts-call-it-a-missed-opportunity\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:18:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:18:16","slug":"bangladesh-boosts-health-budget-by-4-but-analysts-call-it-a-missed-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/bangladesh-boosts-health-budget-by-4-but-analysts-call-it-a-missed-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh boosts health budget by 4% but analysts call it a \u2018missed\u2019 opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the government\u2019s efforts to redress the fallout of the pandemic, the Bangladesh Parliament&nbsp;announced a Tk 327.31 billion outlay on health and family welfare in the proposed Tk 6.04 trillion spending plan.<\/p>\n<p>Set against the backdrop of a devastating second wave of the pandemic in 2021, the proposed budget for the health sector makes up 5.4 percent of the total budget for FY22. However, it only marks a slight increase from the previous year&#8217;s 5.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Although the latest health budget is higher than the revised outlay of Tk 314.72 billion in FY21, experts fear&nbsp;that inflation will diminish the impact of the extra funds.<\/p>\n<p>(1 Bangladesh Taka BDT=0.012 US Dollars USD)<\/p>\n<p><em>To know more read the entire article originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/bdnews24.com\/bangladesh\/2021\/06\/04\/bangladesh-boosts-health-budget-by-4.-and-analysts-lament-a-missed-opportunity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bdnews24.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credits: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-06\/11\/139132271_15919591013581n.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xinhuanet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about Bangladesh&#8217;s health budget? Please let us know in the Comments Section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the government\u2019s efforts to redress the fallout of the pandemic, the Bangladesh Parliament&nbsp;announced a Tk 327.31 billion outlay on health and family welfare in the proposed Tk 6.04 trillion spending plan. Set against the backdrop of a devastating second wave of the pandemic in 2021, the proposed budget for the health sector&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987530135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124,131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987521824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}