Community Clinic becomes world renowned model for healthcare

BSS :
Community Clinic, a brainchild programme of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, is now recognized worldwide as a unique model of healthcare for marginal people.
The international community, including the World Health Organization (WHO), has demanded international recognition of this model of health care in Bangladesh.
Community Clinic Programme Manager Dr Asif Iqbal told BSS that the community clinic is an initiative planned by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched this unique community clinic-based health system in Bangladesh in 1998 with the aim of bringing all the people of Bangladesh under primary healthcare, which has made a revolution in delivering the benefits of government primary healthcare at the doorsteps of the people at grassroots, he said. In these community clinics, 30 types of free medicines are given to patients, he added.

Dr Asif said that the community clinics were built on the land of the local people with the money of the government and the clinics are run by local people. That’s why awareness has been created among the locals about the services of the community clinic as well as they also play a role in maintaining the quality of the services, he mentioned.