id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-286543-mtjk59rp Al-Zaman, Md. Sayeed Healthcare Crisis in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 Pandemic 2020-08-20 .txt text/plain 1812 151 59 This article also identifies three responsible issues for the country's deteriorating health care: 1) poor governance and increased corruption, 2) inadequate healthcare facilities, and 3) weak public health communication. As one of the world's most densely populated countries (1,115 people/km 2 ) with 21.8% of people living below the poverty line, 2 Bangladesh has a healthcare system that lacks reliability, responsiveness, and empathy, and that has already been proved inadequate to deliver proper health care to the public on many occasions. 3, 5 Amid such a situation, the COVID-19 pandemic reveals many loopholes in the healthcare system that can be summarized under three themes: 1) poor governance and increased corruption, 2) inadequate healthcare facilities, and 3) weak public health communication. 6 In such a situation, many private medicals around the country were either unwilling or abstained from treating COVID-19 patients, and thus healthcare denial intensified. ./cache/cord-286543-mtjk59rp.txt ./txt/cord-286543-mtjk59rp.txt