Md Kawser Hossain

A few days ago, famous Bangladeshi cricketer Tamim Iqbal suffered a major heart attack during a match. Around the same time, Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was attacked in his own residence.

About 6.3 million people dropped below the poverty line due to healthcare spending in 2022, with 61 percent of the hospitalised patients finding themselves in financial trauma, according to the Bangladesh Institute of Development studies.