in addition to these facilities some pourashavas have specialized hospitals such as tuberculosis and diabetic hospitals in pourashavas other than the government facilities there are on average private clinics ngo clinics and diagnostic centres in addition there are urban dispensaries across the country that provide primary health services mainly to the urban poor many private forprofit and notforprofit hospitals also provide health services in urban areas private hospitals are mostly located in big pourashavas or city corporations to provide insight into this deprivation the following two sections depict the nature of urban poverty and the limited access of the urban poor to the existing services