Bangladesh, June 19 -- Bangladesh needs to increase budgetary allocation for health in order to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDG) of health and wellbeing, despite corruption and leakage in the sector, experts at a dialogue observed on Tuesday.
Hit by a dearth of health workforce and healthcare facilities, the country has a shortage of at least 0.1 million doctors and at least 0.8 million health care providers, they informed the dialogue styled 'Community Clinic in Implementing SDGs and Universal Health Coverage'.
The experts presented a data that about 5.5 million people of the country are pushed into poverty in a year and about 14 per cent of its population spend more than 10 per cent of their income.
The country has 67 pe...