Health care delivery is a daunting challenge area of
the Bangladesh’s healthcare systems. An effectively performing health system is
essential in improving the population’s health status, providing safeguard against
health-related financial threat and enhancing the health sector’s
responsiveness to customers needs. A health system consists of all
organizations, people and actions, whose primary intent is to promote, restore
or maintain health. Therefore health systems strengthening (HSS) is crucial for
the successful scale up of disease control interventions. Bangladesh has made
significant improvement in health sector, which make it an example for other
developing countries even though being a resource poor country. Over the last
decades key health indicators such as life expectancy and coverage of immunization have improved notably, whilst infant mortality, maternal mortality
and fertility rates have dropped significantly. In Bangladesh, healthcare is
offered either through government- run hospitals or through privately-run
clinics. Bangladesh is still lagging in health care services for the poor as
well as the affluent. In Bangladesh, healthcare is offered either through
government- run hospitals or through privately-run clinics. Bangladesh is still
lagging in health care services for the poor as well as the affluent. The most
critical challenge faced by the health systems in Bangladesh is in the arena of
human resources for health.