Dhaka, Feb. 4 -- Bangladesh sees some improvements in the health sector save specialised treatments for fatal diseases like cancer for shortage of specialists and technical advances in both public and private hospitals.

Also among the shortcomings are Dhaka-based centralised healthcare system, insufficient fund allocation in the national budget for the health sector and high out-of-pocket health expenditure.

These are the cardinal factors driving people to travel abroad for lifesaving advanced treatments.

A specialist view comes from Prof Dr Moarraf Hossen, a renowned physician and senior cancer specialist in the country. He is the former director of National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital (NICRH), Dhaka.

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