GP team visits its own-funded health clinic in Sylhet
FE Report | Wednesday, 2 July 2008
A team of senior officials of Grameenphone Limited (GP) visited a Smiling Sun Clinic at Taltola in Sylhet Sunday.
The clinic is operated by a local non-government organisation (NGO) titled SSKS and is one of the 318 static clinics under Smiling Sun network, which is receiving support from the GP under the 'Safe Motherhood and Infant Care' project.
GP Director (Corporate Affairs) Khalid Hasan talked to some of the service recipients and service providers present at the clinic while he also sought their advice in connection with improvement opportunities.
Healthcare is one of the core focus areas of the mobile company's social investments.
The GP launched the project, in partnership with USAID and Pathfinder International in May 2007, with an aim to provide free comprehensive primary healthcare services to the economically disadvantaged pregnant mothers and infants of the country, through the Smiling Sun Clinic network in the country.
From August 2007 to May 2008, around 852,780 economically disadvantaged mothers and infants have received free healthcare services under the project.
Two of the eight millennium development goals for Bangladesh are related to improving maternal health and reducing infant mortality rates.
The GP is working with relevant development agencies to support the government in achieving these objectives.
Under the Safe Motherhood and Infant Care Project, the company is investing in improving service quality and extending access to healthcare by recruiting additional community-based health workers, upgradation of some of the existing static clinics into emergency obstetric care centres, as well as providing motorised vans (ambulances) and clinic-on-wheels.
The clinic is operated by a local non-government organisation (NGO) titled SSKS and is one of the 318 static clinics under Smiling Sun network, which is receiving support from the GP under the 'Safe Motherhood and Infant Care' project.
GP Director (Corporate Affairs) Khalid Hasan talked to some of the service recipients and service providers present at the clinic while he also sought their advice in connection with improvement opportunities.
Healthcare is one of the core focus areas of the mobile company's social investments.
The GP launched the project, in partnership with USAID and Pathfinder International in May 2007, with an aim to provide free comprehensive primary healthcare services to the economically disadvantaged pregnant mothers and infants of the country, through the Smiling Sun Clinic network in the country.
From August 2007 to May 2008, around 852,780 economically disadvantaged mothers and infants have received free healthcare services under the project.
Two of the eight millennium development goals for Bangladesh are related to improving maternal health and reducing infant mortality rates.
The GP is working with relevant development agencies to support the government in achieving these objectives.
Under the Safe Motherhood and Infant Care Project, the company is investing in improving service quality and extending access to healthcare by recruiting additional community-based health workers, upgradation of some of the existing static clinics into emergency obstetric care centres, as well as providing motorised vans (ambulances) and clinic-on-wheels.