Here an update on current activities received from the WHO country office in Bangladesh:<\/p>\n
1. Preparations of a draft law on social health protection, so that institutions could be established to run an insurance pilot program, and recruit manpower to run a regulatory body for the new UHC institutions, within MOH. This is intended to cover all interventions that have been planned in the new HCFS.<\/p>\n
2. Stakeholder consultations (five rounds) have been done to familiarize people with the concept and definition of UHC.<\/p>\n
3. A Bangla version of the draft Law\u00a0\u00a0is being worked out too.<\/p>\n
4. A set of indicators and measuring tools for progress towards UHC is now ready. It has been shared and disseminated with experts and stakeholders (46 indicators).<\/p>\n
5. Baseline studies are underway for the new pilot program on health insurance (the SSK).<\/p>\n
6. Training and capacity development are underway, on UHC and NHA.<\/p>\n
7. A study to propose the benefit package and costing for a new\u00a0\u00a0formal sector insurance program (for civil servants) is about to begin.<\/p>\n
8. A study on urban slums and their health care access and needs, is now going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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