{"id":987521859,"date":"2021-06-13T03:09:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T02:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/bangladesh-government-to-expand-health-insurance-for-people-below-poverty-line\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:18:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:18:23","slug":"bangladesh-government-to-expand-health-insurance-for-people-below-poverty-line","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/bangladesh-government-to-expand-health-insurance-for-people-below-poverty-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh Government to expand Health Insurance for People below Poverty Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government announced during its budget speech last week that it will expand health insurance for people living below the poverty line.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion comes as part of a programme called &#8220;Shashtho Shurokkha Karmashuchi&#8221; (SSK) formulated to finance expansion of health coverage for those that cannot afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Under this scheme, each enrolled household was being provided Tk 50,000 coverage per year for healthcare services against a government financed premium of Tk 1,000.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As of April 30, 2021, a total of 20,931 members of 81,619 enlisted families have received services under this programme, and it will gradually be expanded across the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>To know more read the entire news report published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailystar.net\/budget-2021-22\/news\/govt-expand-health-insurance-people-below-poverty-line-2104209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Star here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/bsmedia.business-standard.com\/_media\/bs\/img\/article\/2019-02\/13\/full\/1550075960-1512.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business Standard<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anythong to say about the budetary allocations to health in Bangladesh? Please let us know in the Comments Section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government announced during its budget speech last week that it will expand health insurance for people living below the poverty line. The expansion comes as part of a programme called &#8220;Shashtho Shurokkha Karmashuchi&#8221; (SSK) formulated to finance expansion of health coverage for those that cannot afford it. Under this scheme, each enrolled household was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987530155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521859"}],"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=987521859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}