Out-of-pocket expenditure for health service rises by 1.5 percentage points
- Update Time : Sunday, November 21, 2021
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The out-of-pocket expenditure as a share of current health expenditure for Bangladesh has risen by 1.50 percentage points from the previous record.
The information was disclosed on Sunday at a program titled “Pathways to reduce household out of pocket expenditure” at a hotel in the capital based on a research of the Health Ministry.
Currently, a patient has to spend 68.50 percent of the total treatment cost which was previously 67 percent.
Patients spend a whopping 64 percent for drugs, 23 percent goes for hospital expenses (both indoors and outdoors) and 8 percent for diagnosis purposes.
The study also said that some 16.4 percent of patients refrain from seeking treatment because of high expenditure.
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