Bangladesh Red Crescent Society - Health Services

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.