Biomedical Engineering for Sustainable Health: A Qualitative Study on Advancing SDG 3 in Bangladesh

Abstract

Biomedical engineering serves a key role in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3) and offers creative answers to urgent health care issues in countries that are developing. With a focus on telemedicine, portable diagnostics, and mobile health technology, our study examines the effects of the biomedical engineering revolution on the nation’s healthcare system. These include secondary data gathered from 2015 to 2023 from sources such as UNICEF research, WHO, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh Health Watch Reports (MoHFW), and SDG 3 Reports. The methodology and tools used in the research include time series analysis showing the trend of biomedical advancement, Pearson correlation to find out the relation between key variables, and Python’s Matplotlib and Seaborn for correlation heatmaps of numerical feature visualization. Key identifications give insight into increased adoptions in telemedicine in rural villages, reduction in maternal mortalities through the offered mobile health services, reduced mortality ratio to 5.1 percent, and increased capacity by a margin of 25 percent in enhanced diagnostics. Further, more than 300 healthcare professionals have thus received training on these solutions at patient points. This paper identifies how such biomedical engineering, in reaching maximum capacity, needs sustained investments through capacity-building initiatives that will be backed by responsive policy. By making care more available and equitable, biomedical engineering innovations drive the needed progress toward the accomplishments under SDG 3.