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“Primary health care is generally only lacking when
other rights are also being denied Usually it is only
lacking where the greed of some goes unchecked and
unrecognized (or unacknowledged) as being the cause.
Once primary health is accepted as a human right, then
the primary health worker becomes, first and foremost,
a political figure, involved in the life of the community
in its integrity. With a sensitivity to the villagers and the
community as a whole, he will be better able to diagnose
and prescribe. Basically, though, he will bring about the
health that is the birthright of the community by facing the
more comprehensive political problems of oppression and
injustice, ignorance, apathy, and misguided good will.”
—Zafrullah Chowdhury, of Gonoshasthaya Kendra, a
community-based health program in Bangladesh