What are the key achievements of the health sector of Bangladesh?
What are the achievements of health system in Bangladesh?
Among the many noteworthy achievements highlighted in this book since independence, several stand out: i) the improvement in life expectancy at birth to 72 years; ii) the reduction in under-five child mortality from 251 to 31 per 1,000 live births; iii) the reduction in the total fertility rate from 6.6 births per woman to 2.0; iv) the expansion of childhood immunisations to 86 percent and the elimination of polio; and v) the decline in the percentage of deaths from diarrhoea among children from 25 percent in 1970 to two percent in 2000 and since.

