VILLAGE DOCTOR (PART-2)

The village doctor leads a very hard and busy life. He gets up early in the morning, takes his breakfast and become ready for the day s work. He begins to attend the patients who gather at his dispensary. After finishing the work of examining the patients, prescribing and preparing the medicines, he goes out to attend the patients who are unable to go to his dispensary. He returns late in the afternoon finishing his daily round. Then he takes his meal and enjoys rest for the benefit of his own health. In the evening he again gets ready to his patients. He does not mind in attending a patient lying in critical condition during late hours of night.

Though the village doctor sometimes worsens the disease of patients, he is the most trusted perosn to the villagers. He is the best friend to the village people because they find him whenever they call him. He shares their weal and woe.

The village doctor is not so well off. He is satisfied with what he earns. He does not hanker after money. Medical treatment to the villagers is his noble mission in life. His joys know no bound when he sees his patients recovered. Though he is not much qualified, he is of great help to the villagers.

VILLAGE DOCTOR (PART-1)

Bangladesh is a densely populated country. In comparison to her population the numbers of doctors are a few. So it goes without saying that the village doctor is a person of great importance. He is quite familiar to villagers.

The village doctor is not qualified. He does not have a good schooling. He takes the job of a salesman in a medicine shop or the works as a compo under a qualified physician. He also reads some medical books at home. Thus he gathers experience. He also masters the art of pushing injection, stitching and bandaging. Then he sets up a dispensary at a convenient place. His stock of medicine is very poor. His dispensary offers a poor show. There are two or three old almirahs in which he preserves his medicines. He has a poor wooden chair to sit on and a broken of poor quality. There is one or two benches for the visitors and patients to sit on.

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Rural development means development of village. Bangladesh is a land of villages. More then 80 percent of her people live in villages. So the importance of villages in politic is great. The development of the entire country depends on the welfare of these villages. So it is essential to keep the villages in a flourishing condition.

In our country rural development has various aspects. The most important of them are agriculture, education, communication, sanitary and health, cottage industries, fishery, co-operative societies community life etc.

A good communication is essential for the development of the villages. With this end in view our government has taken some practical measures. Many new roads have been constructed and many old and culverts have been repaired. There are also some pucker roads. Now-a-day we see that buses, auto rickshaws trucks, rickshaws etc move on the pucker roads in-the rural areas. Today farmers are sending their products to towns and cities.

Education is the backbone of a nation. Without education a nation can not prosper. It is education which illumines the soul, broadens the outlooks on life and dispels the darkness of ignorance. Bangladesh is a poor country. About 85% percent of her population live in village. They do not know how to read and write. We can not reach the peak of prosperity and progress until and unless we can remove the curse of illiteracy from the lot of our people. Our government is determined to free the nation from the curse of illiteracy within a very short time.

Bangladesh is an agricultural country. Agriculture is the life blood of her economy, Again about eighty percent of our people are engaged in agriculture who live in villages, Even in this modern scientific age our agriculture is very backward. But at present it is a very happy news that our government has taken active steps and necessary measures for the progress of agriculture, such as supplying the farmers with modern scientific tools for cultivation, good seeds, fertilizer at a cheaper rate, agricultural loans on easy terms and many other things. Irrigation system has been improved.

As most of the villagers are illiterate, they have no knowledge of health and sanitation. Most of the villagers suffer from various diseases. But this miserable condition is changing slowly. Many hospitals, health centers, clinics and charitable dispensaries have been set up in rural areas to ensure health to the poor rural people.

Pure drinking water was very scarce in the past. People used to drink water from ponds. As a result they suffered from many water born diseases. Now-a-days every village has at least one or more tube wells.

Though eighty percent of our villagers are engaged in agriculture, a large number of them remain idle for the greater part of the year. They can be employed if the cottage industries are revived and developed. They can earn a decent living from them. The cottage industries can provide employment to a large number of people and in this way unemployment problem can be solved to some extent.

By raising more Poultry and cultivating fish more, we can develop our villages. Our government has paid much attention to these things. The poor villagers are given loan on easy terms. Many unused marshy lands have been brought under fish cultivation.

Through the development of the villages our country will reach the peak of progress and prosperity. Let us all come forward and work with concerted efforts to develop our villages.