BOGURA, Jan 15: Community clinics are ensuring smooth healthcare service for thousands of extreme poor patients in Bogura district.
More than 0.2 million people have been provided the service with the positive initiative of government.
Sources said around 2000 poor and disabled patients from both villages and urban areas in the district are getting medical care from community clinics daily.
District civil surgeon office sources said, aiming to provide modern and improved healthcare services to the people at grassroots level, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare established some 362 community clinics in 102 unions under twelve upazilas of the district, as in other parts of the country.
A Community Healthcare Provider (CHCP) said medicines like Doxycyclin, Vitamin-A and Amoxicillin capsule as well as Albendazole, Antacide, Calcium Lactate, Chlorpheniramine, Co-trimoxazole, Ferrous Fermarate, Hyoscinec abautylbromide, Metrinidazile Paracetamol Suspension, Paracetamol, Penicillin, Salbutamol, Vitamin-B, Zinc Disperable Tablets and syrup worth around Tk 0.2 million are being provided to each clinic every year.
A patient Komela Begum from Nandigram upazila said, "I came to the clinic suffering from diarrhea." I have been given measure medicine as well as saline for the ailment." she added.
But some community clinics in remote areas are yet to be provided with electricity, computers and other necessary medical equipment, causing great suffering to the patients of the area.
District civil surgeon official said they have conveyed the demands of the common people to the higher authority.
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