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Update 2010
The mobile medical clinics provide:
Free prescriptions
Free drugs (when available)
Training in (about 300 people have participated):
* Reproductive health (adolescent girls & women)
* Awareness on basic hygiene & sanitation
* Malaria prevention
* Basic child & maternal health
About 15-20 patients were given free treatment/drugs during each visit. So far about 2,100 patients have taken treatments for common diseases such as cough and colds, respiratory infections, viral fever/flu and diarrhea and intestinal ailments.
There were fewer malaria cases particularly given that 80-90% of reported malaria cases in Bangladesh are from the CHT.
For details, please see
Report, February 2010 (pdf 1 MB)
Mobile Medical Camps, Moanoghar, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
March, 2010. At the request of our Community Advisers Kabita Chakma and Kulottam Chakma, in 2008 BODHI proposed the provision of primary health care to indigenous ethnic minority inhabitants in the CHT through mobile medical clinics. In October, 2009, after many logistical challenges, Moanoghar began running its first ever health outreach program. The government of Bangladesh and the Moanoghar Orphanage and School also provided financial and other support (see report for details).
Moanoghar's mobile medical team, comprised of a medical doctor (MBBS) and a medical assistant, visits three nodes two days a week each in areas disproportionately inhabited by the poorest of the poor in Bangladesh.
At each node, a village health committee has been formed, including village head, schoolteacher, educated youth, salaried professionals and educated women.
Follow-up, middle of first year
Moanoghar considers the ‘mobile clinic’ initiative quite a success. The next six months will be more challenging with the advent of the monsoon. This is the season that people get sick (malaria, diarrhea and intestinal diseases, viral fever, skin diseases, etc.). Also, the rainy weather could pose considerable problems to the ability of the medical team to reach the nodes. More support and resources is particularly needed for the following if the project is to continue further than the stipulated one year:
• Logistics and equipment (at least 1 motorcycle)
• Drugs/medicines
• Re-assessment of the staff salary
• Re-assessment of the team composition: at least 1 health educator and 1 female nurse/paramedic particularly on the maternal and reproductive health issues. The lack of female health personnel in the medical team has been quite a problem, as most often the girls/women feel shy to discuss health issues freely with male health personnel.
UNICEF puts 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.
For more information, please see
Report, February 2010 (pdf 1 MB)
Project proposal & budget (pdf 197 KB)