Table 3 Barriers reported by the DSD population in getting access to health care services, in three major divisions of Bangladesh
| # | Discouraging Interactions | Dhaka (%) | Chittagong (%) | Rajshahi (%) |
Overall (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Non-friendly interactions by non-clinical hospital’s staff (Barrier 1) | 30.87 | 63.16 | 58.89 | 46.67 |
| 2 | Non-friendly interaction by physicians (Barrier 2) | 34.28 | 68.42 | 61.48 | 50.27 |
| 3 | Public fright as general people do not want to mingle with DSD person (Barrier 3) | 22.37 | 47.37 | 14.44 | 26.14 |
| 4 | Undesirable excess public interest as general people congregate around DSD person (Barrier 4) | 43.40 | 58.77 | 54.07 | 50.16 |
| 5 | Limitation of the treatment opportunities of hospitals to merely male or female patient (Barrier 5) | 20.58 | 19.74 | 43.33 | 26.88 |
