Inaccessibility To Maternal And Child Health Services Of Indigenous People In Chittagong Hill Tracts

Abstract

The paper reviews the major barriers the indigenous population in the remote areas of Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, encounters while accessing the Maternal and Child Health services. For this purpose a cross-sectional study was conducted in Chandraghona and descriptive method was adopted to analyse the data. Unavailability of doctors and medicines, costly treatment, long distance from the hospital and lack of transportation were the major challenges faced by the ethnic minority groups. Besides, their cultural and spiritual beliefs have always been obstruent in the way of accessing the MCH services.