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Projects & Activities: Current Projects

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Objectives

To provide basic health care services to the most deprived and poorest of the region's indigenous minorities

To raise awareness of the basic health care and hygiene among the communities

To link the communities with the government's health care system

To draw the government's attention to the public health situation in the CHT

 

Moanoghar Health Care & Mobile Medical Camps

 

Moanoghar Hospital patientsAt the request of our Community Advisers Kabita Chakma and Kulottam Chakma, BODHI will facilitate provision of primary health care to indigenous ethnic minority inhabitants in the CHT.

A recent United Nations survey found the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh lagging behind the rest of the country in all aspects, particularly primary health care. In successive surveys, UNICEF put the region at the bottom of the table in respect to key indicators such as child and maternal mortality rate, vaccination of most preventable childhood diseases (polio, diphtheria, measles, tetanus, etc.) and vitamin A deficiency, along with the presence of health facilities (hospitals, community clinics) and health practitioners in the hospitals. The region's inaccessible terrain also acts as a barrier because no doctor wants to live in such a remote place.

Primary health care will be provided at the health clinic at Moanoghar school and orphanage and at mobile medical camps in three villages in the CHT, which are located near Rangamati but made inaccessible by lack of roads and communications. These areas are disproportionately inhabited by the poorest of the poor in Bangladesh.

Our project began in October, 2009 and will benefit around 10,000 people.

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