Better Health Care for Everyone
The Amader Gram Health Care Program's goal is to develop innovative, transformative, and trustworthy community-oriented healthcare services addressing cancer and other non-communicable diseases (NCD) for southern Bangladesh, under a sustainable and accountable financial program that ensures access for all.
Meeting the big health care challenges
The control of cancer and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is changing, with an increasing emphasis, driven by public and political demand, on prevention, prompt diagnosis, and the patient experience during and after treatment. At the same time, governments and health funders worldwide are increasingly promoting primary care as the preferred setting for most healthcare, in order to meet the growing demands, stabilize healthcare costs, and accommodate patient preferences for care close to home.
Therefore, it is timely to consider how primary care can influence cancer and NCD control, as the discussion has been dominated by highly technical interventions focused on treatment, with the contribution of primary care often perceived as marginal (See: https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/primary-care).
Primary care has been shown to be associated with greater access to health services and better health outcomes. Community-oriented primary care involves medical practice that takes responsibility for the health of a defined population. The demonstrated barriers to high-quality primary care include under-financing, inadequate payment models, a lack of community linkages, limited scope and comprehensiveness, limited integration with other components of the health system, and unexciting/unattractive conditions for physicians.
To make our village your village
OUR MISSION
Our program addresses the neglected community health challenges, especially those affecting women and children, by creating an integrated and linked network of community health workers, virtual care services, and ambulatory care facilities and services with two information technology tools: an electronic medical record and wireless broadband access. We will make an accountable business plan, including a subscription system, making our services completely self-sustaining by 2027.
“Maybe I cannot reach the moon, but I can be touched by the moonlight"- Rudra Muhammad Shahidullah, a Bangladeshi poet noted for his revolutionary and romantic poetry. He is one of the leading Bengali poets of the 1970s coming from our Rampal village.
These Amader Gram community health care workers are cellphone-empowered medical heroes who are enthusiastic about bringing high -quality primary care services to each of their Rampal upazila villages.
WHAT MAKES US SPECIAL
To create accessibility for Moriyam
Our current need for support -
Help Connect 138 Rural Villages with NCD Care
In December 2024, the construction of our beautiful Ambulatory Care Clinic and Diagnostic Center buildings was completed and officially handed over to the AGCRC Board of Trustees. Additionally, work is progressing on major access roads leading from both the Khulna-Mongla highway and throughout the upazila, including the construction of a bridge at the north entrance.
AGCRC is seeking US$150,000, or the equivalent in Bangladeshi Taka, to support the Community Affairs Program for two years. This initiative will connect residents of 138 villages in Rampal with essential non-communicable disease services, health education, early screening, medical consultation, and referral support.
The program will operate through a community network of 100 Ghol Ghor- locally built bamboo and golpata gazebos, serving as village health access points. One hundred trained Village Health Volunteers will be equipped with primary-care kits and digital connectivity to provide basic screening, community follow-up, and store-and-forward telemedicine services in coordination with AGCRC clinicians.
Your contribution will help establish and manage this last-mile rural health network, bringing affordable and timely NCD care closer to families who currently travel 30-40 kilometres for many essential services.
Support AGCRC in building a sustainable bridge between rural communities and modern healthcare.
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