health care – Ubinig

Simple needs for basic health services are not met

12Dec

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Maternal & Child Health

Simple needs for basic health services are not met

Farida Akhter I have been visiting some upazilla and Union health care centres in different areas specially in the districts of Cox’sbazar, Bandarban, Tangail, Kushtia, Chapainababganj and Brahmanbaria during last two months. It is nice to see that the buildings are well constructed and have all the potentials for increasing the facilities to provide services to the people. They are well located in terms of road communication. My main purpose was to see if women and children can receive services for maternal and child health services, although the Union and Upazilla Health centres are not all equipped to provide such services. I went to a Community Clinic. The time was 9:45 am. It was locked, which was not very surprising for anybody near the clinic. For them it was not even th...

Improving Access of Maternal and Child Health Care Service

13Nov

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Maternal & Child Health

Improving Access of Maternal and Child Health Care Service

UBINIG In early 2012, UBINIG took an initiative for improving access of maternal and child health to the government health service delivery system. For this purpose, UBINIG selected 130 villages in 23 Upazila under 15 districts, where the women of reproductive age, pregnant women and children under 5 (U5) had very little access to government health service delivery system. UBINIG also identified various reasons for poor access including transport, non-availability of health professionals and as women many of them found difficulties to move. UBINIG also recorded that the government health professionals have occasional visits from the government Health and Family Planning Services who conduct immunization campaigns. To access government health care, villagers have to travel a minimum...

25Nov

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Health & Health Policy

Shortage of doctors and nurses:

Farida Akhter Shortage of doctors and nurses: Dismal picture of the rural healthcare in Bangladesh In the rural Bangladesh, people go to “Sorkari Haspatal” (the government health facility) because they know that the ‘Daktar shaheb’ (doctor) is qualified. In times of sickness, they prefer government hospital over a private one, because it is “free” or much less costly than the private treatment. Most importantly, they trust the doctors. They feel it is their right to receive services from a government hospital. For a village patient, the nearest sophisticated health centre is called Upazilla Health Centre, established for a population of 200,000 to 350,000. The services are available are for treatment of common diseases, emergency services and injuries. But the question is, are ...

Reality Check, 2009 on Primary Health Care

21May

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Health & Health Policy

Reality Check, 2009 on Primary Health Care

UBINIG Declining quality of public health services is leading to increased use of private healthcare services 20 May 2010. DHAKA: Shasthya Andolon, a network of researchers, physicians, and health and environmental activists organised a "Dissemination & Discussion Session" on sharing of findings of the study Reality Check Bangladesh 2009: Listening to Poor People's Realities about Primary Healthcare. Shasthaya has organised this event on behalf of Sida (Swedish International Development Agency) as their commitment to engage with the policy makers and development partners to create an enabling policy environment for positive directions in national healt policy, strategy and health financing issues. The event took place on 20 May, 2010 at CIRDAP Auditorium, Dhaka. A form o...