Tk 81.49b allotted for health ministry
Friday, 11 June 2010
FE Report
There has been allocation of Tk 81.49 billion (8,149 crore) in the newly proposed budget for the fiscal year 2010-11 for the ministry of health and family welfare for service expansion, upgradation of facilities and recruitment of manpower.
Aiming to ensure basic healthcare to all, it has been announced in the proposed budget that there will be significant increase of hospital capacity in districts and upazilas and more medical colleges and nursing institutions will be established to create experts.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith presented the fiscal year's budget at the Parliament Thursday.
Presenting the proposed budget, the finance minister has also announced to recruit more doctors and nurses for rural healthcare centres.
"With a view to providing better health services to the people, recruitment of 6,391 health assistants has been completed during the current year and 14,000 more will be recruited very soon under the action plan for manpower recruitment for this sector," he said.
He also said that recruitment of 4,133 doctors on ad hoc basis and 2,627 nurses under the Directorate of Nursing Services has been completed.
There is an opportunity for employment of one healthcare advisor for each of the 13,500 community clinics and 46,000 persons under National Nutrition Programme to provide nutrition-related services at the field level, he added.
He mentioned that the government has already commissioned 9,525 clinics under the programme for establishing 13,500 community clinics as committed. Out of 45 upazilas included under the Maternal Health Voucher Expansion scheme, delivery of services has already begun in 35 upazilas. An additional 17 upazilas have been identified for extension of this scheme, he said.
"We expressed our intention to upgrade in phases all upazila and district level hospitals to 50-bed and 250-bed ones respectively," he said adding that a total of 142 upazila hospitals have already been upgraded to 50-bed ones and another 144 upazila hospitals are being upgraded.
Besides, nine district hospitals have been upgraded to 250-bed ones. Of the five new medical colleges promised in the previous budget speech, classes have already commenced temporarily in three colleges, he said.
There has been allocation of Tk 81.49 billion (8,149 crore) in the newly proposed budget for the fiscal year 2010-11 for the ministry of health and family welfare for service expansion, upgradation of facilities and recruitment of manpower.
Aiming to ensure basic healthcare to all, it has been announced in the proposed budget that there will be significant increase of hospital capacity in districts and upazilas and more medical colleges and nursing institutions will be established to create experts.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith presented the fiscal year's budget at the Parliament Thursday.
Presenting the proposed budget, the finance minister has also announced to recruit more doctors and nurses for rural healthcare centres.
"With a view to providing better health services to the people, recruitment of 6,391 health assistants has been completed during the current year and 14,000 more will be recruited very soon under the action plan for manpower recruitment for this sector," he said.
He also said that recruitment of 4,133 doctors on ad hoc basis and 2,627 nurses under the Directorate of Nursing Services has been completed.
There is an opportunity for employment of one healthcare advisor for each of the 13,500 community clinics and 46,000 persons under National Nutrition Programme to provide nutrition-related services at the field level, he added.
He mentioned that the government has already commissioned 9,525 clinics under the programme for establishing 13,500 community clinics as committed. Out of 45 upazilas included under the Maternal Health Voucher Expansion scheme, delivery of services has already begun in 35 upazilas. An additional 17 upazilas have been identified for extension of this scheme, he said.
"We expressed our intention to upgrade in phases all upazila and district level hospitals to 50-bed and 250-bed ones respectively," he said adding that a total of 142 upazila hospitals have already been upgraded to 50-bed ones and another 144 upazila hospitals are being upgraded.
Besides, nine district hospitals have been upgraded to 250-bed ones. Of the five new medical colleges promised in the previous budget speech, classes have already commenced temporarily in three colleges, he said.