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Out-of-pocket health expenditure to rise: Experts

The proposed budget for the health sector will further increase out-of-pocket health expenditure, thus enlarging people's burden and sufferings in securing healthcare services, said health experts.They also feared that so many people would become new poor in meeting high health expenditure in Bangladesh.The government in the proposed budget has allocated...

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Youths will be empowered through skill training

The government is taking special measures to empower the youth with skill training and meet the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), said Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in his budget speech on Thursday.In addition to skill development, necessary steps will be taken to create job opportunities for the...

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70 Covid, 112 dengue cases reported

Bangladesh reported 70 more Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours until Thursday morning as the cases keep rising in the country, reports UNB.With the new numbers, the country's total caseload rose to 2,039,417, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).However, the official death toll from the disease...

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Severe heat wave sweeping some dists

Rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country in the next 24 hours until 06:00 pm today (Friday)), according to the Met...

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