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1. TRENDS IN POLICY
DEVELOPMENT
The constitutional commitment of the Government of
Bangladesh is to provide basic health and medical requirements to all people
in the society. The Constitution of
the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
ensured that “Health is the basic right of every citizen of the Republic,” as
health is fundamental to human development.
Since independence, the government has been pursuing a
policy of health development that ensures provision of basic services to the
entire population, particularly to the under-served population in rural
areas. The successive health plans of
the country emphasize Primary Health Care (PHC)
as the key approach for improving health status of the people. The goal ‘Health for All by the year 2000’
has been accepted by the government as a national goal. The past plans in the health sector had
endeavored to provide essential healthcare to the general masses. To attain this goal, many development programmes have been undertaken in the health sector
during the past years. MOH, BANGLADESH
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