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Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Thursday proposed an allocation of Tk 41,407 crore for the Health and Family Welfare sector in the next fiscal year 2024-2025 which was Tk 38,051 crore in the fiscal year 2023-2024.
While placing the budget in the next fiscal year, the finance minister said, “For advancement of the medical sector, the father of the nation established the Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC) in 1972 and also specified its functions.”
He said noteworthy functions include development and organisation of scientific research in various disciplines of health sciences, development and streamlining of scientific research in various disciplines of health, reproductive health and nutrition to identify issues and problems related to medical and health care needs and to take measures aimed at proper application and utilisation of medical research results.
Following the principles of father of the nation, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has undertaken and implemented extensive development programmes in medical science research in the last 15 years.
Ensuring universal health and nutrition is one of the basic principles of our government, the finance minister said adding, “We are working to implement this principle. Specially, we are working diligently to build a healthy, strong and lively population by providing affordable quality Health, Nutrition and Family Welfare (HNP) services to the public.”
“We have already achieved commendable progress in the development of health, nutrition and family welfare sectors,” he also said, adding despite resource constraints, Bangladesh has demonstrated remarkable success in achieving health-related MDG targets.
“Inspired by this, we have been working to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 and the goals of the Perspective Plan by 2041 and ensure smart health services,” the finance minister added.
