KHAGRACHHARI. Nov 10: Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF). this year's Nobel Prize winner, is going to set up two community health clinics in the hill district for the poor, reports UNB.

The clinics will be set up in Dighinala and Panchhari thanas to provide healthcare facilities to both the tribal and non-tribal people.

They will also carry out a campaign to make the people aware about health issues.

Country Manager of the Holland-based organisation Moniek Hooijmans made the disclosure at a press briefing here on Monday.

She told newsmen that people of the district were suffering from various diseases like malaria, diarrhoea, measles ana other diseases. "And to reach them the basic health services, health workers and traditional midwives would be imparted training."

Hooijmans said MSF was strictly maintaining its impartial role' in providing health care and humanitarian support to the victims of natural disasters and communal, religious and political conflicts.

"MSF stood beside Bangladeshi people during natural disasters in 1992 and 1995 to 1997. It also provided healthcare

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MSF district project coordinator Mariet Lohman and local officials were present at the press briefing.