Daffodil International University
Faculty of Allied Health Sciences => Pharmacy => Topic started by: Saqueeb on December 04, 2013, 10:49:21 AM
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A private trust has geared up its efforts to provide medical help to dwellers of Dhaka’s largest slum.
The Good Heal Trust says they are now conducting two special camps every month in addition to their regular ‘innovative’ services from a clinic in the crowded Korail slum.
The shanty town is home to nearly 0.15 million poor people crammed in small huts.
The number of its dwellers is growing by the day as more and more people are migrating to the capital straining their basic needs like healthcare.
According to the Trust, in its latest camp on Thursday doctors examined 38 patients. In the previous camp held in the first week of the month, as many patients were treated.
The patients range from garment workers to beggars.
The Trust launched the clinic in April this year in collaboration with the Diabetic Association of Bangladesh. It uses telemedicine technology to reach out to its everyday patients.
Initially, it organised a special camp every month. Later, it expanded its activities and started holding two camps a month.
Doctors at the Diabetic Association’s Bangladesh Institute of Health Science help them out in conducting special camps.
On enrolment to the camp for Tk 30, a patient receives a card using which they can get tests and consultancy at a discount at the Trust’s designated facility near the slum.
The Trust’s trained health workers first screen a registered patient before the doctors examine them.