What are the key achievements of the health sector of Bangladesh?
What are the main goals of Bangladesh Health Policy 2011?
The primary goals of Bangladesh National Health Policy 2011 are as follows: Establish health care as a right in all layers of society by ensuring essential elements of care, nutrition, and public health improvement.
Providing quality and easily accessible care, irrespective of an urban and rural community, mainly focusing on the poor and disadvantaged population
Establish a community clinic to provide primary health care for every citizen. Every 6000 population will be under one community clinic
Prioritize emergency care
Reduce maternal and child mortality rates significantly
Achieve a replacement level of fertility within 2021
Ensure the necessary steps to improve maternal and child health status and ensure safe delivery services in each village
Ensure easy accessibility and availability of family planning services, especially to poor- and low-income community people
Ensure gender equality in health-care services
Make certain effective and efficient use of information technology in the health-care management system
Ensure adequate supply of logistics and manpower in government health-care facilities to deliver quality health-care services
Ensure a mechanism to regulate the quality and price of care and educational expenses in private facilities
According to the need of the country, ensure modernization and adaptation of medical education and technology
Ensure coordination between different health-care-related departments, ministry of GoB, and MOHFW, in addition to coordination between the Government of Bangladesh and NGOs
Strengthening preventive services specially expanded program on immunization activities
Access to health-related information is right. Steps will be taken to ensure the right
Ensuring the availability of essential drugs by regulating prices for essential medicines
Ensure adequate epidemiological tracking of disease patterns and impacts of climate change on health
Ensure improvement of allied health care (Unani, Ayurveda, and homeopathic) education and care delivery system