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Achievement of MDGs on Poverty and Health in Rural Bangladesh
M. Abdul Wahhab
Abstract

The paper discusses the achievements of MDGs on poverty and health status of rural people in Bangladesh. Chronic hunger and famine and suffering from food shortage were a common feature in 1970s. Today Bangladesh is not a food shortage country like 1970s and the poor as the study reveals feel free from hunger and famine conditions. So goal 1 of MDG to eradicate severe poverty and hunger has achieved, but considering the target for Bangladesh to bring poverty down to 25% in 2015, will not be achieved because 41.4% (40% at national level) live under poverty line. With regard to health, the study reveals that on an average 45% of the people from the age group of 6 months infants to 60 years above old men are malnourished and underweight. An overwhelming majority people in the rural areas have no access to MBBS doctors for medical care services. The main health care providers to them are either private quack physicians or government community clinic led by the same quack physicians. However maternal and infant death has come down to a reasonable extent.

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