Special Correspondent :
The finance division, under the finance ministry, has released Tk 735.77 crore emergency funds against the demand by the health ministry for its efforts to ensure access to Covid-19 vaccine for the people of the country.
Officials said the fund would be spent for buying three crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines from Serum Institute of India (SII).
“About Tk 1,580 crore will be required for procurement, preservation and inoculation of three crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines. Of the required funds, Tk 735.77 crore was released on Monday as per the special request from the health ministry,” a finance division official told The New Nation yesterday on condition anonymity.
Earlier, the government signed a trilateral memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bangladesh’s Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd in this regard.
Pune-based Serum Institute has an agreement with AstraZeneca to manufacture the vaccine, ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, being developed by the Oxford University. The vaccine has been named Covishield in India.
The three crore doses will be delivered in phases with 50 lakh doses every month, ac
expenditure, which is higher than those of any SAARC nations, except for Afghanistan.
The majority of the elderly people reported that some 61 per cent had taken healthcare services from pharmacies, followed by public facilities (33 per cent) and private facilities (19 per cent).It was found that nearly 9.0 per cent of the elderly citizens in the poorest quintiles did not seek care while in the richest quintiles it was only 2.0 per cent.
So the richest families are almost five times as likely to seek healthcare as the poorest — and the major reason for that is that they have to pay out of their pocket. Hence the reason why almost two thirds of the patients seek out basic care from pharmacies is because of the cost. But pharmacists are not medical persons.
Those who are our good doctors are among the best to take care of patients but modern facilities are not available in public sector. Where government ministers and other government high-ups can easily go abroad for medical care at public expense, the government has no concern to look after the public health sector. We have to people’s government to listen about needs of senior citizens and others in difficulties.
The finance division, under the finance ministry, has released Tk 735.77 crore emergency funds against the demand by the health ministry for its efforts to ensure access to Covid-19 vaccine for the people of the country.
Officials said the fund would be spent for buying three crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines from Serum Institute of India (SII).
“About Tk 1,580 crore will be required for procurement, preservation and inoculation of three crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines. Of the required funds, Tk 735.77 crore was released on Monday as per the special request from the health ministry,” a finance division official told The New Nation yesterday on condition anonymity.
Earlier, the government signed a trilateral memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bangladesh’s Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd in this regard.
Pune-based Serum Institute has an agreement with AstraZeneca to manufacture the vaccine, ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, being developed by the Oxford University. The vaccine has been named Covishield in India.
The three crore doses will be delivered in phases with 50 lakh doses every month, ac
expenditure, which is higher than those of any SAARC nations, except for Afghanistan.
The majority of the elderly people reported that some 61 per cent had taken healthcare services from pharmacies, followed by public facilities (33 per cent) and private facilities (19 per cent).It was found that nearly 9.0 per cent of the elderly citizens in the poorest quintiles did not seek care while in the richest quintiles it was only 2.0 per cent.
So the richest families are almost five times as likely to seek healthcare as the poorest — and the major reason for that is that they have to pay out of their pocket. Hence the reason why almost two thirds of the patients seek out basic care from pharmacies is because of the cost. But pharmacists are not medical persons.
Those who are our good doctors are among the best to take care of patients but modern facilities are not available in public sector. Where government ministers and other government high-ups can easily go abroad for medical care at public expense, the government has no concern to look after the public health sector. We have to people’s government to listen about needs of senior citizens and others in difficulties.
