Staff Reporter :
The allocation in the health sector was reduced to five percent from 5.2 percent in the proposed budget of the FY 2018-19.
An allocation of Tk 23,383 crore has been proposed in the budget for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in the fiscal year.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith placed the budget
in the Parliament on Thursday.
“Our goal in the health sector is to ensure affordable and quality health and family welfare services for all,” said Finance Minister while placing the budget.
Muhith said, “Giving of nutrient foods and health services to mothers and children, quality and specialised health services for all, control of communicable and non-communicable diseases caused by climate change, development of modern and efficient medicine sector and skilled manpower, will come under this programme,” the minister said.
He said, the government has started the process of recruiting 9,792 doctors in two phases, to recruit additional 4,000 senior nurses to bring the doctor-nurse ratio at 2:1 and to ensure health services for all.
“Besides, we have finalised the recruitment of 600 midwives with an aim to bring birth time child and maternal mortality rates to zero by 2021,” he said.
Programmes of expansion of infrastructures in different hospitals, the number of hospital beds, supply of medical equipment and construction of specialised hospitals in different districts will continue, he added.
The government has also a plan to establish one medical college by turn in each division to upgrade the standard of health services.
The allocation in the health sector was reduced to five percent from 5.2 percent in the proposed budget of the FY 2018-19.
An allocation of Tk 23,383 crore has been proposed in the budget for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in the fiscal year.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith placed the budget
in the Parliament on Thursday.
“Our goal in the health sector is to ensure affordable and quality health and family welfare services for all,” said Finance Minister while placing the budget.
Muhith said, “Giving of nutrient foods and health services to mothers and children, quality and specialised health services for all, control of communicable and non-communicable diseases caused by climate change, development of modern and efficient medicine sector and skilled manpower, will come under this programme,” the minister said.
He said, the government has started the process of recruiting 9,792 doctors in two phases, to recruit additional 4,000 senior nurses to bring the doctor-nurse ratio at 2:1 and to ensure health services for all.
“Besides, we have finalised the recruitment of 600 midwives with an aim to bring birth time child and maternal mortality rates to zero by 2021,” he said.
Programmes of expansion of infrastructures in different hospitals, the number of hospital beds, supply of medical equipment and construction of specialised hospitals in different districts will continue, he added.
The government has also a plan to establish one medical college by turn in each division to upgrade the standard of health services.
