Recent discussions surrounding the transfer of Bangladesh’s Urban Primary Health Care Service Delivery Project (UPHCSDP) have largely focused on the distribution of administrative responsibilities between ministries.

The government’s decision to transfer urban primary healthcare services in 12 city corporations and 23 municipalities from the Local Government Division (LGD) to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), along with its plan to establish 170 new urban health centres in Dhaka and Chattogram, marks a turning point for the country’s health sector.

Aalo clinics are designed to provide comprehensive primary healthcare services.

When we think of urban poor, we typically think of people living in slums.It’s not quite as simple.

Urban healthcare centres, run by the local government bodies, are failing to provide even the basic reproductive health and nutrition services due to a lack of human resources, found a study released yesterday