Imagine a future where a tablet or phone in a village clinic can perform the work of expensive lab tests and specialists.

There is no denying that community clinics have all the promises to save lives if run by qualified people.

Almost all of the 51 community clinics in Gaibandha Sadar upazila, with no physicians, supportive staff and medicine, have become a microcosm of the broken healthcare system of the country.

The supply of Albendazole tablets, a worm killer, to several community clinics of Sadar Upazila of Nilphamari district, only two weeks before their...

Community clinic has proved to be an efficient and low cost primary healthcare provider at the grassroots level. The present government deserves full credit for reviving and bolstering them.