The nation has kicked off talks with ratings agencies to lay the groundwork for a return to international debt markets
Finance Minister AMA Muhith presented a Tk 3.41 trillion budget for the 2016-17 fiscal in Parliament on Thursday.
The budget proposes to allot 4.7 percent or Tk 175.16 billion for the health sector.
This is 18 percent more than the revised Tk 148.40 billion budget for the sector in the current FY 2015-16.
Muhith said a pilot social health security programme initially providing health services to the poor through health cards had already got underway.
“If this initiative proves successful, we will extend it countrywide. A maternal health voucher scheme for poor, distressed and pregnant mothers will continue to run alongside.”