
Health sector should get utmost priority in the upcoming budget for the 2020-2021 fiscal in a bid to reduce COVID-19 effects and provide basic health security for vulnerable population, speakers said at a webinar on Monday. Allocation for health sector should be increased to 2.0 per cent of the country’s GDP in the next budget from existing less than 1.0 per cent, they suggested. They also said bottom of the pyramid (BOP) population (poorest two-thirds of the economic human pyramid) should get extra focus in the budget as they are the worst sufferers of the pandemic. The suggestions came at the webinar titled ‘COVID-19 and National Budget 2020-2021: Rethinking Strategy for BoP’ jointly hosted by BRAC, DataSense and Unnayan Shamannay.
Health sector should get utmost priority in the upcoming budget for the 2020-2021 fiscal in a bid to reduce COVID-19 effects and provide basic health security for vulnerable population, speakers said at a webinar on Monday. Allocation for health sector should be increased to 2.0 per cent of the country’s GDP in the next budget from existing less than 1.0 per cent, they suggested. They also said bottom of the pyramid (BOP) population (poorest two-thirds of the economic human pyramid) should get extra focus in the budget as they are the worst sufferers of the pandemic. The suggestions came at the webinar titled ‘COVID-19 and National Budget 2020-2021: Rethinking Strategy for BoP’ jointly hosted by BRAC, DataSense and Unnayan Shamannay.