Our new Medical Center opened on the first floor of our training center in Dhaka in February 2023. Two local doctors are currently employed for five days a week – as in BThe outpatient clinic is open from Sunday to Thursday, as is usual in Bangladesh. Up to 300 patients are treated each week.
In order to make access as low-threshold as possible, the treatment costs are set at approx. 25 EurocThe number of employees is also very manageable by local standards. In this way, we want to ensure that no one is Costs too high is excluded from basic medical care at the Medical Center. However, if someone is unable to pay this amount, he/she will still be treated by us. Since this of course not costs, we also need your support to continue this important help. continue to to make this important help possible.
In the first room, patients are registered, weighed and their temperature taken. They are then seated in the waiting area. The examination is then carried out by the doctor. As these are basic medical treatments, patients are referred to local healthcare facilities for more complex treatments and examinations. In certain cases, these costs are also covered. Na ch the Un the examination, people are given the prescribed Medicines free of charge in the in-house pharmacywhich is located in the next room. This ensures that they really get the medicine they need – and don’t have to weigh up the options later. e.g. the vital medicine and a warm meal.
As has already been tried and tested in the past, Austrian Doctors has been offering volunteer assignments for doctors from Austria and Europe again since September 2024. In addition to the work in our fixed infirmary in the training center, we also have a mobile clinic. The background to this is that many of our patients cannot afford transportation to us. So we decided to use the mobile clinic to visit people where they live. Various poor areas of Dhaka are visited on a regular basis. The volunteer doctors from Europe support the local staff here – and both sides benefit enormously from this cooperation. In addition, medical missions are planned for our rural project in Gazipur, which is currently in the final planning phase.
The following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are being promoted with the help of this project:
The local NGO responsible is our long-standing partner “Glory Future Model School”. We also run three schools in Dhaka with this partner.
