State-run community clinics are playing a vital role in ensuring maternal and neonatal healthcare in the rural areas of Moulvibazar, said Muhammad Taskir Miah, president of Porchakra Community Clinic, at a congregation in Monsurnagar union under the district’s Rajnagar upazila yesterday.
Held on the clinic premises, the congregation was made up of around 100 expecting women and adolescent girls who participated in a drive organised by Porchakra group committee with the support of Partners in Health and Development, an NGO.
The first of its kind in Moulvibazar, the aim of the drive was to measure haemoglobin and sugar levels and determine blood groups of the participants, free of cost.
The event was chaired by Taskir and conducted by Shiekh Muhammad Abdul Khalique, field co-coordinator of Partners in Health and Development. Muhammad Milon Bakht, chairman of Monsurnagar union parisad, Mamunur Rashid, union parisad member, and Uma Roy of the NGO addressed the gathering, among others.
Milon Bakht stressed on the need for both the government and the community’s active participation to make the community clinics successful for the greater interest of rural public health in Moulvibazar.
Jamirul Islam, district co-coordinator of Partners in Health and Development, said the NGO had plans to support such events with the help of UNICEF and Canadian International Development Agency in all the community clinics in the district’s seven upazilas.
