Duwell Telehealth 

We are connecting rural areas of Bangladesh with practicing doctors through the telemedicine platform. For this sake, we have established a telemedicine center in the remote sites of Naria Upazila, Shariatpur District Bangladesh. This is an impoverished area with a native population of approximately 225,000, and where the average income hovers around $1,200. The healthcare facilities have been broken due to the Padma River erosion in August 2018.  In Naria Upazila, there was an only two-story building of the Naria Upazila Health complex, which was over 500 meters away from the bank that has been destroyed now. Over 4,000 families have become homeless and they do not have proper access to the healthcare facilities due to the availability of doctors, medical staff, and infrastructure facilities. Also, most of the medical doctors prefer to work in urban areas due to living facilities and other fringe benefits. Because of Naria’s location in central Bangladesh, patients who are in need of even the most rudimentary clinical and diagnostic services must first endure a seven-hour ride by ferry or a five-hour bus ride along primitive roads, followed by a harrowing, often dangerous, ride by speedboat. Therefore, telemedicine is the right solution for this region. Every month around 450 rural patients get telehealth services from our platform and we are planning to expand our telehealth service to other rural regions of Bangladesh as well.

 

Maternal and Child Health Care Initiative (MACHI)

  • Reducing the morbidity and mortality rates for both mothers and children through programs that include early and appropriate pre- and postnatal education and care.
  • Reducing the incidence of easily preventable childhood diseases through a program of early and universal vaccinations and inoculations
  • Contributing to the overall health awareness of the patient-population through; health-education programs that consider such factors as existing level of health care literacy, cultural and religious factors, and local customs and protocols.
  • Case Management with caseworker(s) assigned to each family, including regular home visits and cognizant of individual family dynamics.
  • Comprehensive data on each individual member of the patient-population and family unit, which includes data compiled from regular checkups, services rendered, and evaluations.

Emergency Response Support

Bangladesh is a disaster-prone nation where an emergency occurs frequently. Duwell International provides emergency response and humanitarian aid in times of crisis. We try to identify the gaps of humanitarian aid and step in to assist in the most efficient and impact manner through relief distribution, emergency medical camp, medicine distribution, rapid medical assistance to the disaster-affected area, sanitation, providing clean water, etc. In 2017, approximately 7,00000 Rohingya people from Myanmar moved into the neighboring border areas of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. The risk of outbreaks of diarrheal disease and mass epidemics was high as a result of living in the densely populated region and people’s poor physical and nutritional state, with little access to healthcare. Currently Duwell International in association with Global Outreach Doctors, USA organizes emergency health camps for displaced Rohingya refugees.