Reducing Health Risk of the Excluded

Some Innovative Practices

Meeting Health Challenges of Excluded: POPI’s Experience

Presented by

Murshed Alam SarkerExecutive DirectorPeople’s Oriented Program Implementation

(POPI)

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POPI’s Health Initiatives: Major Areas of Focus

Access to Quality Health ServicesMother, Child and Adolescent HealthHealth AwarenessCapacity Building and Social Accountability

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What Do We Do: Innovative PracticesAccess to Quality Health ServicesWater AmbulanceFloating Health ClinicHealth Camp at Community LevelEye Camp at Community LevelHealth Card for disadvantagedChar Sasthya KendraMicro Health InsuranceSatellite Clinics in Floating VesselsFree Treatment and Assistive Device for

DisabledAdvocacy

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What Do We Do: Innovative PracticesMother, Child and Adolescent

HealthInitial health check-up of working

childrenPeriodical health check-up of

students Half-yearly health camp for childrenEmergency referral linkageFirst aid support for child worker at

the factoriesMother to mother support groupMaternal, neonetal and child survival

services Songlap centre for adolescent girls

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What Do We Do: Innovative Practices

Health AwarenessDevelopment of Community Health

Volunteer (CHV)Health awareness/education sessionsContextually appropriate awareness events Collaboration between POPI and communityHealth fair for community at largeMulti-lingual (ethnic) dissemination of

health information

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What Do We Do: Innovative Practices

Capacity Building and Social Accountability

Social review of health governanceCoordination among health department,

LGBs and concerned stakeholdersSupport to the field level health workersProblem identification and micro planningWard and union level MNCS planning

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Water Ambulance of POPI

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Floating Health Clinic of POPI

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Health Session on a Floating Health Clinic

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Health Check-up of a new born baby

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Regular Health Check-up of Learners

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Major Achievements of POPI

Around 1.5 million patients of hard to reach areas received health care support

More than 500 trained birth attendants provided maternity care support

295189 people came under the purview of maternal, neonetal and child survival services

Health Education Service to 2.3 million people

Reproductive Health care support to 50000 people

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