Assessing readiness of health facilities for hypertension and integration with diabetes care in Bangladesh: Evidence from the National Service Provision Assessment Survey

In Bangladesh, health facilities are still not adequately ready to deliver integrated HT-DM services, illustrating deficits in human resources, clinical protocols, diagnostics, and availability of medicines at an overall system level. There are several areas that need improvement-the need for strengthening integrated training, free availability of medicines, client feedback systems, and collaboration between the public-private-NGO sectors. The results, though based on 2017 data, remain important in capturing system readiness prior to the reform and serve as a nationally representative baseline to assess the upspring of HT and NCD program improvements in Bangladesh.