5000 islanders suffering for absence of healthcare facilities
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
SHARIATPUR, Nov 29 (UNB): Around 5000 people of Charatra Island in Naria upazila Shariatpur district are not getting proper healthcare facilities since collapse of the lone community clinic in the area over two years ago due to erosion by the Padma river.
The residents of the remote island now have to travel at least 10 kilometres to go to Charatra union for treatment, local people said.
Charatra, an island in the middle of the Padma river under charatra union is about 15 kms northwest of Naria upazila headquarters.
Some 1500 families have been living there. In the last three years, many houses in the island were damaged at least twice by river erosion, said Masbauddin Munshi, chairman of Charatra union parishad.
Sufferings of those who fall ill know no bound as no government or non-government organisation has come up with healthcare service for them after the collapse of the health care centre in 2009, said the UP chairman.
It is really very difficult to take patients to any clinic outside the island for treatment, he said.
We have decided to setup a community clinic in the island again. Before doing it, we are going to start a satellite health clinic there, said Dr. Golam Faruk, Naria upazila health and family planning officer.
Jasimuddin's birth
anniversary tomorrow
FARIDPUR, Nov, 29 (BSS): The 109th birth anniversary of Palli Kabi Jasimuddin will be observed in Faridpur on January 1 in a befitting manner.
Jasim Foundation, a local organization headed by Deputy Commissioner of Faridpur to preserve the works and literary heritage of the late poet has chalked out a month long programme here at the ancestral home of poet at Gobindapur in the suburb of the district town.
It is to be mentioned here that the graveyard of the eminent poet is also located in the premises of the poet's home facing the bank of river Kumar.
A meeting of the steering committee of Jasim Foundation presided over by acting Deputy Commissioner Arun Chandra Mohottom was held Monday at the conference room of DC.