Bangladesh Red Crescent Society has been rendering health services to the people round the year as well as in time of disaster.
Currently our services are as follows:
A. Services
- Mother and Child Health (MCH) care center: 56
- General Hospital: 2
- Tertiary Hospital: 1
- Maternity Hospitals: 4
- Eye Clinic: 2
- OPD (Out Patient Department): 2
- Blood Banks: 8
B. Institutions
- Medical College: 1
- Dental College: 1
- Nursing College: 1
- Diploma Nursing Training Institute: 3
- Midwifery Training school: 5
Location of Mother and Child Health Care centers
BDRCS has been running 56 MCH centers in 29 districts throughout the country mainly in rural and disaster-prone areas.
Services of the MCH centers
- Ante Natal Care (ANC)
- Normal Delivery
- Post Natal Care (PNC)
- Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI)
- Family Planning
- General Patient (GP) care
- First Aid (FA)
- Health Education (HE)
- Referral Services
- Counseling
Service providers in each MCH centers
- Community Midwife (CMW): 1
- Assistant Community Midwife (ACMW): 1
- Community Health Promoters (CHPs): 2
- Cleaner / Watchman: 1
Centre Management Committee (CMC)
All MCH has a management committee. Committee members are elites of the community. They managed their center locally in coordination with the NHQ.
Services provided in 2017
- Normal delivery: 5524
- Ante Natal Care (ANC):20571
- Post Natal Care (PNC):6358
- Referred case: 945
- Immunization: 21025
- FP materials distribution: 18616
- General patients: 76195
- Health Education: 102972
- Counselling: 19284
- Total clients: 271490
Population Movement Operation (PMO)
Health Service
- Mobile Medical Team, GRC, Italian Red Cross and Canadian Red Cross (CRC)
- Japanese Red Cross, Medical Clinic & Mobile Medical Team.
- Emergency Response Unit (ERU) 100 bed Field Hospital
- Psychosocial Support (PSS)
- Epidemic Control for Volunteers (ECV)
Way forward
- Improving skills of service providers
- Sufficient medicaments and modern equipment’s
- Renovation and maintenance of MCH centers
- Introduce proper waste management systems
- Regular monitoring / supervision
- Digital facilities / connectivity
Sustainability
Our target is to see all our centers are financially sustainable out of their own income.