Abstract

Despite being a third world country, Bangladesh has a huge prospect of providing modern, advanced healthcare in cheaprates. It has started that journey by building new health infrastructures, strengthening primary health care, increasingoutputs of doctors, nurses and paramedics, developing a strong health information system and encouraging public-privatepartnerships. With increasing GDP, health status of people has also been improved as evidenced by achieving targets of thehealth related indicators in Millennium Development Goals. In spite of having lower per capita health expenditure thanneighboring countries, Bangladeshi people have achieved higher life expectancy at birth with progressively strengthenedhealth system. This country is developing resources at a fast pace to attract the medical tourists challenging other Asiancountries popular for medical tourism. Bangladesh needs to make curative sector stronger to earn massive sum of foreigncurrency and emerge as a country of medical tourism in near future.

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