November 6, 2025
DHAKA – Around one hundred community health care providers (CHCPs) continued their demonstration for the second consecutive day today, demanding payment of their 16-month arrears and permanent employment.
Taking position in front of the Community Clinic Health Support Trust office at BMRC Bhaban in Dhaka’s Mohakhali, the demonstrators chanted slogans in support of their demands.
Bilkis Akhter Mithila, a CHCP who travelled to Dhaka with her five-month-old daughter yesterday, said she spent the entire day and night on the premises.
“My baby is suffering from fever but I have no choice but to bring her with me… living without salary for 16 months is almost impossible,” she told this correspondent today.
Bilkis has been living with her mother and younger brother since her father died of cancer about a month ago. “He passed away without proper treatment. I couldn’t afford it,” said Bilkis, who hails from Sarishabari in Jamalpur.
Fahim Uddin, another CHCP, said 662 joined community clinics in March 2023 and received regular salary till June last year.
They were not getting salary since July last year, making their life terrible, he said.
Fahim said CHCPs appointed in 2011, 2015, and 2018 under various projects were brought under the revenue budget in December last year, but others were not, creating discrimination.
“We met health secretary twice and he assured us but we are not getting salary for the last 16 months,” he said.