Dhaka Community Hospital has been implementing its own Community based health insurance program throughout Bangladesh.

Most of the inhabitant of rural area's is poor. Usually they do not visit doctors, they visit so-called Quack doctors (Village doctor). As their purchasing capacity are very low, drugs or investigation prescribed by doctors, most of the prescription remain unused. Nutritional status and health awareness of the Rural people are very poor. Women, children and elderly people are usually fur from Medicare facility . So those category of people suffer from infectious diseases in high incidence. There is a tendency of char land people to retain diseases for long time eg. people do not consult any health personnel in the early period of their diseases. Some people become poorer due to bearing of treatment expenditure.

For the last three and half years DCH along with the rural health partner organizations have been launched Community based integrated health care program e.g. Both invasive preventive and curative care. Primary Health Care implementation has limited the infectious diseases to a certain limit but a lot of awareness program is still to be taken. Due to regular meeting and advocacy with Government health personnel EPI and other Government health program in some area become more effective.

In the program area health center established and 8 hours doctor & 24 hours paramedical services are available. So people now can take health services (Doctor Services, Paramedical services, medicine services at low cost, even health education) whenever it needs.

Due to in time intervention of diseases incidence of infectious diseases decreased to a significant rate.
 

Most of the beneficiaries are somehow involved in the project actively; rural people are participating in the health program by registration and monthly renewal of health card. Volunteers are selected from the beneficiary for different project activities by forming different action committee. TBA’s are included in the program and a serial training has provided to them. Paramedical training courses are going on who are selected from the local area.
 

Beneficiary involvements are:

By this project a group of efficient health staff has developed. Training on program orientation, PHC, survey, clinical management and special diseases has developed the doctors & paramedics, Community Development Workers and TBA’s to give services more effectively. At the end of project TBA’s, Community Development Workers and Paramedic will be available for delivery of respective services individually.
 

Income generating activities:

Overall role of DCH in Rural Health Insurance Program:

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