First world healthcare by third world provider: position of Bangladesh

Type Journal Article - Journal of Health Science Research
Title First world healthcare by third world provider: position of Bangladesh
Author(s)
Volume 1
Issue 2
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2016
Page numbers 29-33
URL http://informaticsjournals.com/index.php/jhsr/article/view/4597
Abstract
Despite being a third world country, Bangladesh has a huge prospect of providing modern, advanced healthcare in cheap
rates. It has started that journey by building new health infrastructures, strengthening primary health care, increasing
outputs of doctors, nurses and paramedics, developing a strong health information system and encouraging public-private
partnerships. With increasing GDP, health status of people has also been improved as evidenced by achieving targets of the
health related indicators in Millennium Development Goals. In spite of having lower per capita health expenditure than
neighboring countries, Bangladeshi people have achieved higher life expectancy at birth with progressively strengthened
health system. This country is developing resources at a fast pace to attract the medical tourists challenging other Asian
countries popular for medical tourism. Bangladesh needs to make curative sector stronger to earn massive sum of foreign
currency and emerge as a country of medical tourism in near future.

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