Diabetes Fact: Bangladesh Perspective

Abstract

Bangladesh is a developing country where 75% of total population lives in rural area. Subsequently, they have poor healthcare access as 26% of rural professionals remain vacant and nearly 40% absent. Although official documents indicate that 80% of the population has access to affordable essential drugs, there is plenty of evidence of a scarcity of essential drugs in government healthcare facilities. Nearly 45% rural people take medical assessment from unqualified health workers including medical assistants, mid-wives, village doctors, community health workers in comparison to that by qualified medical graduates (only 10%–20%). More than 75% women having complications sought treatment from an unqualified provider. These are mostly because concern over medical costs and pronounced socioeconomic disparities found for care-seeking behavior in both urban and rural. Bangladesh. Diabetes is a complicated chronic disease; non-compliant patients are in a risk of moderate to severe complications, to much extent unexplored to maximum people of Bangladesh.

Keywords: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation for Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM); International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, Bangladesh); non-compliance; patient