Activists of community clinics in Panchagarh district are still giving services to patients in remote areas with courage amid coronavirus pandemic.
Now, the patients are receiving treatment from these clinics, rather to go upazila and district hospitals to tackle the risk of coronavirus infection.
A total of 111 community clinics have been set up in five upazila of the district. Most of those are in remote areas. The health department has already served PPEs, masks, hand sanitiser, gloves and necessary medicines at every clinics.
Community health care provider of the clinics has giving services to the patients weekly six days while a health assistant and family welfare assistant have also giving service weekly three days as per the order of the Directorate General of Health Services.
They have been giving treatment maintaining health guidelines.
Sadar upazila Ratnibari Community Clinic health care provider Md Farruq Hasan said, "We are providing services to people regularly amid novel coronavirus pandemic. Some patients come here with corona symptoms. It is difficult for us to detect whether he/she has been infected with the deadly virus. We are continuing giving treatment keeping ourselves safe and maintaining social distancing."
Health assistant Monira Begum said, "We are giving treatment and advises to pregnant women weekly three days.
Besides, satellite clinic is conducting one day in a month.
Arjina Parvin, community health care provider of Amjani Community Clinic in Boda upazila, said, "Patients come here with fever, cough, cold, abdomen pain, headache. We tried our best to give them proper treatment."
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