health
general health issues in bangladeshHealth in Bangladesh has for long been a problem. Pollution, malnutrition, diarrhoea malaria and the lack of clean water are the majoring issues the country has faced which further has led to poverty and which has diminished the fight away from poverty. Hepatitis A and B are common in Bangladesh and spread quickly and in some areas, especially in rural areas where the risk of getting malaria and dengue is also very common. The regular tap water is not drinkable because it is dirty and the pipelines are old and rusty as well. The government spending on health has not ever been good. Water is mainly bought from stores and the poor cannot afford the prices of water which keeps them in ill health conditions. The poor health system has led to that the big population of Bangladesh cannot get the help they need, especially in the rural areas where there has been a lack of doctors and medical centres for ill people.
Although Bangladesh faces a lot of health issues a massive immunization program has been introduced in Bangladesh provided for all children under five. Vaccination preventative of HIV/AIDS, malaria, hepatitis A and B and diarrhoea are amongst these vaccines. This immunization program has been implemented to reduce the "Under-five mortality rate" which measures the probability per 1,000 that a newborn baby will die before reaching age five. (UNDP) To the right UNICEF has made some small videos of of the immunization program has been implemented in Bangladesh.... |
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MillienNium Development Goal 5: Improving maternal health
the red CRESCENT hospital, Anderkilla, Chittagong, Bangladesh
To put the research to practise, I visited a hospital in Chittagong to see for myself and to back up my research. I met a doctor who in this hospital was head of the labor section in the hospital and she answered a few questions which I had:
- How has women's health developed since the implementation of the Millenium Development Goals?
- Can you see a decrease of mortality rates in this facility?
- Has mothers health developed? Why?
- What in general has become better?
- What has the government done?
- How much does it cost?
- How has women's health developed since the implementation of the Millenium Development Goals?
- Can you see a decrease of mortality rates in this facility?
- Has mothers health developed? Why?
- What in general has become better?
- What has the government done?
- How much does it cost?