Primary healthcare has been
considered as a major agenda in many national and international policies and
gained enormous attention by Global leader. Following the 1994 International
Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, emphasis was given on
providing a broader range of primary healthcare (PHC) services in a package to
minimize the costs.
The Essential Service Package
(ESP) was targeted especially to women, children and poor, intended to offer
quality services from one stop facilities that would be client oriented.
Enhancing the quality of health
care delivery in developing countries through provision of ESP is a key
element to increased utilization of these services in the target population.In
the last two decades there was a huge growth in urban population in Bangladesh.
It is a great challenge for the
public sector to meet up the growing needs of health care services in urban
areas of Bangladesh, particularly for the urban poor. Under the Health and
Population Sector Program (HPSP), the Government of Bangladesh aimed to provide
ESP package accessible through fixed site clinics that was aimed at maximizing
health benefits, meeting needs of clients, strengthening service delivery, and
improving health systems management.
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