Assessing service availability and readiness to manage Chronic Respiratory Diseases (CRDs) in Bangladesh.
Progga ParomitaHasina Akhter ChowdhuryCinderella Akbar MayabotiShagoofa RakhshandaA K M Fazlur RahmanMd Rizwanul KarimSaidur Rahman MashrekyPublished in: PloS one (2021)
Only tertiary care hospitals, constituting 3.1% of sampled health facilities, were found ready to manage CRD. Inadequate and unequal supplies of medicine as well as a lack of trained staff, guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of CRDs, equipment, and diagnostic facilities contributed to low readiness index scores in all other tiers of health facilities.