Govt to ensure doctors' presence at hospitals
The government has been giving a special attention to healthcare services for the country's rural people and persons with disabilities on priority basis, said Health and Family Welfare Minister AFM Ruhal Haque yesterday.
The objective of the healthcare is to reach services to the challenged as they can't afford it, he said while inaugurating a workshop on the Appraisal of the Third Report (1997-2007) of Bangladesh National Health Accounts at a city hotel.
The minister said special measures have been taken to ensure attendance of the physicians and augmentation of medicine supply at the state-run health centres.
The Health Economics Unit under the health ministry and DATA International Limited, a domestic research institute, jointly presented the report under the supervision of NHA specialist Dr Ravi Rannan Eliya at the workshop.
German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) has provided the technical and financial assistance.
The report revealed that total expenditure in the health sector was 3.4 percent of GDP in 2007 while average expenditure was 3.2 percent from 2003-2007 and 2.8 percent in 1998-2002.
The government expenditure was slightly above one percent of the GDP.
AFM Ruhal Haque said the national health account presents the correlation between the expenditures and flows of finance in the health sector.
Presided over by Health Secretary M Humayun Kabir, the function was also addressed, among others, by Chief of Health Economics Unit Prashanta Bhushan Barua and GTZ Coordinator for Health, Nutrition and Population Activities Dr Helga Piechulek.
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