Daylight Robbery?

Daylight Robbery?

With the Central Medical Store Depot overpricing medicine purchase, in cases by 4662% compared to DMCH's procurement price (Amikacin), the only term that comes to mind is daylight robbery! These prices are eventually transferred to the end user - one can only imagine the impact on those who need the drugs but cannot afford the 'superprices'. Thanks to Dhaka Tribune for fantastic investigative reporting.

Source:
www.dhakatribune.com/crime/2013/nov/30/tk15-drug-bought-tk700

Not even a fighting chance

Not even a fighting chance

While we push each other around in the cities fighting to get a slightly larger piece of the pie we don't need, let us remember that 46% of children in Bangladesh stay hungry everyday. Bangladesh has the world's HIGHEST malnutrition rate.

Sources:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
southasia.oneworld.net/news/bangladesh-has-highest-rate-of-malnutrition-in-the-world#.Uo77ZicVPIU
www.unicef.org/sowc2011/pdfs/SOWC-2011-Main-Report_EN_02092011.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_in_Bangladesh

Healthcare in Bangladesh - A Low Blow

Healthcare in Bangladesh - A Low Blow

Bangladesh has one of the lowest nurse to people and hospital bed to people ratios in the world, and a strikingly high incidence of self funded healthcare.

Sources:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
kff.org/global-indicator/hospital-beds/
kff.org/global-indicator/physicians/
kff.org/global-indicator/nurses-and-midwives/
kff.org/global-indicator/out-of-pocket-expenditure-on-health/