Health awareness activity has been continuing among the people of grass-roots level in the district and its neighboring Bogura district over two months to help to achieve sustainable development goals.
SinnomulMohilaSamity (SMS), a voluntary organization, has been implementing the activity under Achieving Sustainability Towards Healthcare Access (ASTHA) Project in cooperation with Swiss Contact Bangladesh.
Project coordinator of SMS Dr. Rahmat Ali said generally the rural people are very simple and straightforward. If they even suffer from illness, they first go to quack doctors and others and take medicine on their advices. As a result, they do not recover from the disease rather they suffer from various physical complications, he also said.
Many of them have to spend their whole lives with a disability due to taking roots, branches and leaves of the trees as medicines prescribed by the quack, he added.
If such kind of treatment is continue by doctors with hammer then the health system of rural people will collapse resulting it would not be possible to achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030 declared by the government, he further added.
