The government will set up a total of 13,861 community clinics across the country for reaching healthcare services to doorsteps of the common people.
State Minster for Health and Family Welfare Zahid Malik made the disclosure in the parliament while replying to a question from Jatiya Party lawmaker Begum Noor-e-Hasna Lily Chowdhury, reports BSS.
The state minister said the government has already established 12,557 community clinics while the construction of the rest 1,304 is underway.
These clinics are providing primary healthcare services along with free of cost medicines to the underprivileged and marginal mother and children.
He said the healthcare service would help reducing maternal and child mortality in the country.
