Village Doctor

A village doctor is a very familiar person in the rural areas in Bangladesh. He is usually known as a quack [হাতুড়ে]. He earns much popularity by dint of his friendly behaviour and benevolent services to the suffering village people at the time of their dire need rendering [সম্পাদন করা] service to them is a noble mission of his life.

A village doctor is not a qualified doctor. He treats patients with his long experience gathered by working as a compounder of a qualified doctor. He generally sits in a small dispensary attached to his house in the morning and evening. He treats the patients taking small fees. He often does not take fees from the very poor patients. He attends the call outside with great interest without considering his own inconveniences [অসুবিধা]. He does not have any compounder. He himself gives medicines to the patients. He takes great care of his patients. If necessary, he spends even a whole night by the bedside of a patient.

A village doctor is usually not a rich man. So he cannot equip his chamber with requisite furniture and cannot keep costly medicines in his pharmacy. As such, he cannot supply costly and important medicines to the serious patients. As a result, many patients die. Sometimes he prescribes wrong medicines that may often cause death to the patients.

Ours is a land of a vast population. In comparison to our population, the number of qualified doctors is very small, especially in the rural areas. Moreover, most of our rural people are ill-fed and ill –clad. They can’t afford to pay fees to the qualified doctor. In such a case, a village doctor is highly helpful and essential [অত্যাবশ্যক] to the poor and helpless villagers. So, a village doctor is a great friend to the village people.