Bangladesh has taken efforts to strengthen NCD management in primary health care and are planning to accelerate the coverage of hypertension and diabetes management. All levels of primary health care including community clinics, union level facilities and sub-district hospitals are being involved in a phased manner through capacity building, essential drugs and diagnostics, supportive supervision and digital monitoring.
At the WHO South-East Asia Regional Meeting on NCD Roadmap on 12-15 June 2023, Professor Dr Mohammed Robed Amin, Line Director, Noncommunicable Diseases Control, Directorate General of Health Services of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of Bangladesh announced that the country will make all efforts to place three million people with hypertension and/ or diabetes on protocol based care by 2025.
