Dhaka, May 5 -- The Health Sector Reform Commission - one of the five commissions formed in the second phase to recommend state reforms - has recommended the declaration of declare primary healthcare a "basic right" in the Constitution and provide it for free to the poor.

The commission's report also includes recommendations to launch a Bangladesh Health Service, form a medical police, and allot 15 percent of the national budget to the health sector.

The commission, headed by National Professor Dr AK Azad Khan, submitted its final report to chief advisor Muhammad Yunus on Monday at the State Guest House Jamuna in Dhaka. Later, they shared the report at a press briefing at the Bangladesh Foreign Service Academy.

The commission's report ...