To provide basic preventive and curative health services through a network of outreach facilities. A special focus is given to mother and child care, health education and training, nutrition, sanitation, safe drinking water and immunization. Currently GUP through its Satellite clinics provides health related services to mothers & children’s. The services include pre, during and post natal service to the mothers & children’s including coverage of the immunization for the children’s & mothers. The health workers also provide the health counseling to attending mothers at the clinics. Besides, Eye Camp is organized every year since GUP’s inception in collaboration with Bangladesh National Society for the Blind (BNSB-Khulna) for general eye treatment and cataract operation of the poor people. Health and nutrition activities are one of the most important activities of the Somriddhi Programme. Among the 200 Somriddhi Unions supported by the funding of PKSF, 50 Unions have been listed as Digital Health Service Unions. Among them, Khalia union of Rajoir Upazila is included as a Digital Health Service Union.

Under this Service the health related information of all members of the 5715 households of Khalia Union is stored/preserved on PKSF’s designated server. If any member of the said Union wants to collect health related information at any time, s/he can see it with the help of the designated ID number of the said household. Information like, checking how the blood pressure of a hypertensive patient has been fluctuating for the past one month or how was the blood sugar level of a diabetic patient for the past one year, can be collected. As a result, it is convenient for doctors to diagnose diseases and the people of Khalia, like the people of developed countries, can know and monitor their health status information.

 Through the Health and Nutrition Service Activities of Somriddhi Programme, all member families of the Union get nutrition and health services at the doorsteps free of cost. Two Health Officers and 12 Health Inspectors are involved in the implementation of the programme. Each Health Inspector visits 20 families or households daily. Family based health cards are sold (at a nominal fee) and services are provided at static and satellite  clinics by identifying diseases. Health Inspectors regularly diagnose blood pressure and  diabetes in pregnant women and common people as per instructions, measure MUAC tape (nutrition check), weight and height of children and collect family health information. According to the need, they are referred to the static clinic or satellite clinic of the Somriddhi Programme and advised to go to the government health and family planning doctor.

 

Treatment status in Static and Satellite Clinics

Health Officers provide medical care at static clinics and organize Health Camps at Satellite Clinics under the Somriddhi Programme. They monitor and supervise the activities of Health Inspectors and perform various administrative tasks under Health Programmes.They determine blood groups according to instructions, organize nutrition camps, various health and medical camps at regular intervals, such as eye, gynecology, child health, skin and sexual, ear-nose-throat, rheumatism, and dental camps. Two satellite clinics are organized every week, and at the satellite clinics, local patients are provided with free medical prescriptions, iron tablets, and
calcium tablets by the organization’s part time MBBS doctors. Free medical prescriptions and medicines are provided by specialist doctors at health and medical camps.

In addition, deworming tablets, iron tablets, calcium tablets, and nutritious particles are provided free of charge throughout the year. In the case of complex patients, they are advised to go to a government hospital or a suitable hospital. To make family members feel that they are getting health care for a fee of Tk.100  per year, not for free,
each family is encouraged to purchase a health card for a fee of Tk.100 per year. 

As in the neighboring Union, there should be three or more Community Clinics at the government level in the Khalia Union in the health sector, but since there is no Community Clinic in this Union and on the basis of the demand of the local people, all kinds of health care and nutritional supports are provided here under the Somriddhi Programme.

 

Health Camps

·       Rheumatic Pain Treatment Camp

·       Mother and Child Health Care Camp

·       Skin and Allergy Health Camp

·       Ear, Nose and Throat Health Camp

·       Annual Eye Camp