Dhaka, Oct. 9 -- Thousands of hypertension (HTN) patients in rural areas get lights of hope for appearance of non-communicable disease (NCD) corners in different government hospitals and community clinics.

Thousands of patients of the lethal disease get different medical services including blood pressure checkup and medicines free of cost regularly.

Besides, physicians and officials of those NCD corners are keeping health conditions of those patients in their regular monitoring.

Sources said, one in every five people which is about 21 percent of the total population are suffering from HTN across the country. About half of them are women.

Besides, about 13.6 percent of the rural people are suffering from HTN.

Most of the HTN patients ...