Project: Health Clinic at Korail slum

 

Overview:

Korail Slum, the largest slum in Dhaka city, is home to around 300,000 impoverished people in the poorest living conditions and facing severe health risks.

Plan:

Good HEAL Trust aims to implement an Outreach Program (OP), a continuous holistic humanitarian assistance program that is a combination of appropriate, targeted interventions that is aimed at not only improving the health and wellness of the population thru targeted healthcare services and employment-oriented capacity building.

OP was designed with technical assistance of Diabetic Association of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM).  Clinical service at the clinic will be provided by the Physicians and Nurses of Diabetic Association of Bangladesh.

The clinic gives slum dwellers access tohealth advice and treatment for all general illnesses, as well as health education for disease prevention. Need-based healthcare services include antenatal and postnatal care, screening and treatment of communicable diseases, screening and treatment of non-communicable diseases such as Diabetes, Hypertension, Pulmonary diseases, and Renal diseases, as well as Vaccination for children and a new micro-insurance scheme for long-term sustainability of the program.

The clinic will also have a skill development program for moderately educated women of the slum.  The Bedside Assistant Training Program (BATP) is designed using the model of a non-technical, semi-skilled community caregiver capable of serving in a nursing home.

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