City Desk :
Community clinics are playing an important role in containing the spread of coronavirus as these clinics are providing healthcare services in the country’s rural areas.
The number of service-seekers is also surging during the current coronavirus pandemic as the people with mild fever and cold are rushing there for consultations.
The community clinic healthcare providers (CHCPs) told media that their health workers are continuing to give advices to the people to stem transmission of the deadly disease.
“We’re suggesting all to follow health guidelines issued by the health directorate if they feel sick. We’re also asking them to stay at their home and safe, not go out of houses unnecessarily,” a healthcare provider said.
The CHCPs said the number of patients at the community clinics has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic than the normal time as they get panicked to go to other government hospitals.
So they are receiving treatment at the community clinics if they suffer from common diseases, they said.
Line Director of Community Based Healthcare (CBHC) Dr Sohadev Chandra Rajbangshi said that health workers are rendering medical services to the rural people regularly with courage to prevent the Covid-19 situation.
On the basis of the World Health Organisation(WHO), he said, the guidelines on providing services by the clinic workers during the pandemic have already been posted online.
Besides, they were imparted training on collecting samples from the possible Covid-19-infected marginalised people.
Dr Sohadev said moreover the CHCPs are working at the field level to identify the possible Covid-19 patients through digital screening and collecting data.
Lipon Kumar Sarkar, who came to Kusambi Community Clinic of Tarash upazila in Sirajganj, to receive treatment, said he has been suffering from fever, cold and cough for the last few days.
“It’s not possible for me to go to upazila health complex, which is 14 kilometres away from my village. Moreover, the people have been asked to maintain social distancing during this corona period,” he said.
Lipon said the patients from many places go to the government hospital and they may carry the virus. “So, I’ve come to the community clinic adjacent to my home and we get free medicines alongside the services,” he said.
Kusambi Community Clinic Healthcare Provider Amrita Pramanik told media that the people with simple fever, cold and cough do not go to the district and upazila hospitals due to coronavirus panic.
“For this, village people come to us. Previously on an average, 30-40 patients visit the community clinic, but now the number has been doubled,” he said.
Community clinics are playing an important role in containing the spread of coronavirus as these clinics are providing healthcare services in the country’s rural areas.
The number of service-seekers is also surging during the current coronavirus pandemic as the people with mild fever and cold are rushing there for consultations.
The community clinic healthcare providers (CHCPs) told media that their health workers are continuing to give advices to the people to stem transmission of the deadly disease.
“We’re suggesting all to follow health guidelines issued by the health directorate if they feel sick. We’re also asking them to stay at their home and safe, not go out of houses unnecessarily,” a healthcare provider said.
The CHCPs said the number of patients at the community clinics has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic than the normal time as they get panicked to go to other government hospitals.
So they are receiving treatment at the community clinics if they suffer from common diseases, they said.
Line Director of Community Based Healthcare (CBHC) Dr Sohadev Chandra Rajbangshi said that health workers are rendering medical services to the rural people regularly with courage to prevent the Covid-19 situation.
On the basis of the World Health Organisation(WHO), he said, the guidelines on providing services by the clinic workers during the pandemic have already been posted online.
Besides, they were imparted training on collecting samples from the possible Covid-19-infected marginalised people.
Dr Sohadev said moreover the CHCPs are working at the field level to identify the possible Covid-19 patients through digital screening and collecting data.
Lipon Kumar Sarkar, who came to Kusambi Community Clinic of Tarash upazila in Sirajganj, to receive treatment, said he has been suffering from fever, cold and cough for the last few days.
“It’s not possible for me to go to upazila health complex, which is 14 kilometres away from my village. Moreover, the people have been asked to maintain social distancing during this corona period,” he said.
Lipon said the patients from many places go to the government hospital and they may carry the virus. “So, I’ve come to the community clinic adjacent to my home and we get free medicines alongside the services,” he said.
Kusambi Community Clinic Healthcare Provider Amrita Pramanik told media that the people with simple fever, cold and cough do not go to the district and upazila hospitals due to coronavirus panic.
“For this, village people come to us. Previously on an average, 30-40 patients visit the community clinic, but now the number has been doubled,” he said.
