Monthly Archives: October 2014

Healthcare Project in Korail Slum

As the team continues its services, not every month has a large number of patients. This month, Good Heal Trust has given service to a total of 268 patients, including regular clinic patients, advanced consultancy services, follow-ups, referral cases and GHT Health camp patients. Similar to previous months, GHT’s Telemedicine Services, consultancy through Skype was provided to 5 patients. The two doctors who provided their services through Skype were Dr. Aynul Kabir (from the Medicine Department)- 3 patient and Dr. Apurbo Kumer Saha (from the Medicine Department)- 2 patients.

As the make shift clinic does not have enough facilities to accommodate and provide patients with the different treatments they require, the GHT team arranges referrals for patients every month. This month 33 patients were referred to different hospitals such as BSMMU, Sorwardi Hospital, Dhaka Medical College Hospital (BMCH), Gulshan Seba House, TB Hospital, Society for Assistance to Hearing Impaired Children (SAHIC), BRAC, Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) and the GHT Camp.

Good Heal Trust presented health awareness sessions twice a week on general health advice to patients of the Korail Slum. These sessions are much needed for many of the families. Advice pertaining to personal hygiene, family planning, common diseases amongst women, common diseases present in households and many other issues were discussed. Focus Group Discussions (FDGs) were held with 550 people within the slum. Senior nurses along with the help of team members help to conduct the sessions. We hope the families will benefit from the discussions and invite others to join in the upcoming months.

There were two health camps held this month, on the 24th and 26th of October, 2014. A total of 82 patients were given health services in these camps. The doctors who provided service at the camps were Dr. Apurbo Kumer Saha (from the Medicine Department) and Dr. Farhana Khatun (Senior Medical Officer), Gulshan Diabetic Center.

Within these camps, not only are adults given service but children from the ages of 0-13 are also given service. As has been noted, a pediatrician helps out during the camp service.

In the camps, a total of 32 patients registered as newly registered patients. 25 of them were newly registered and 7 of them were registered from before. Good Heal Trust provides a health card to each new person. A mere Tk50 is charged as the card registration fee. Each card holder patient is also given a registration number. With this card patients are able to avail the health care services that the trust has to offer.

In addition to the above, as always, special healthcare screening was given for the following: breast -oral -cervical cancer screening, blood sugar monitoring, health education and diet counseling, pregnancy tests were given for both adults and adolescents and special heath education sessions were held at the slum clinics.

With winter around the corner, GHT is expecting more patients during the winter season. Especially children and the elderly as the cold tends to effect them the most.

We hope next month we will be able to extend our services to more patients.

Nurses’ Skill Enhancement Program

The Nurses Skills Enhancement Program has come to an end at Birdem. Final exams were conducted in Nursing, English, Grooming and Computers. As the Nursing faculty had to leave by the end of October, Nursing sessions have concluded at National Heart Foundation. However, English, Computers and Grooming will continue until the end of November at NHF. The nurses have shown great improvement in the past one year. GHT hopes to continue the program with other hospitals in the upcoming months.  We will keep readers posted regarding all the updates on the NSEP project.

GHT Okaidi Health Clinic

Good Heal Trust is pleased to announce that it has started up a new health program for Grameen Shikka’s ten schools in Mirpur, sponsored by and in collaboration with Okaidi. The team will be providing basic medical care to the students of these ten schools.

On 27-October-2014, a medical checkup was held for the students of one of the schools. 30 students were given a checkup within 2 hours. The children’s weight, height, BP and other basic health matters were looked into. Each child has a medical file set for him/her. This will be maintained by the trust whenever the child is given a checkup. It was indeed very sad to note that 50% of those checked were underweight and 73% of the children had anemia. The team has recommended different doctors for the children according to their medical needs.

This month, the trust has had three university students from France join the GHT Okaidi Health Clinic for their internship work. They are working for prevention and awareness amongst the children. They visited two of the schools and have done their health awareness activity along with our Clinic Nurses.  The topic was ‘Hand Washing.’

The team plans to have meetings with the parents to collect the medical history of each child. We hope to work in collaboration with the teachers, parents and all those concerned with the well being of the children of these schools. We look forward to bringing this project to greater heights in the upcoming months.

*GoodHealTrust would like to request continued special prayers for its Executive Director, Mr. Tanvir Raquib who has travelled to the states for further treatment after his recent heart attack and stroke. We are happy to say he has shown improvement in the recent weeks and is working towards recovery. We would like all of our readers to continue to remember him in your prayers and request others to do the same. We will keep everyone updated regarding his health. Thank you all for your continuous support.*

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