Better Health Care for Everyone
The Amader Gram Health Care Program's goal is to develop a visionary, innovative, transformative, and trustworthy model community-oriented healthcare services addressing cancer, and other non-communicable diseases for the southern Bangladesh, under a sustainable and accountable financial program that ensures access for all.
BACKGROUND
Meeting the big health care challenges
The nature of cancer control is changing, with an increasing emphasis, pushed by public and political demand, on prevention, prompt diagnosis, and patient experience during and after treatment. At the same time, primary care is increasingly promoted by governments and health funders worldwide as the preferred setting for most health care to meet demands of increasing need, stabilize health-care costs, and accommodate patient preferences for care close to home.
Thus, it is timely to consider how primary care can influence cancer control, where the discussion has been dominated by highly technical interventions centered on treatment and in which the contribution of primary care has been largely perceived as marginal (Ref: https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/primary-care).
Primary care has been demonstrated to be associated with greater access to health services and better health outcomes. Community-oriented primary care is medical practice that undertakes responsibility for the health of a defined population. The demonstrated barriers to high-quality primary care are under-financing, inadequate payment models, lack of community linkages, limited scope and comprehensiveness, limited integration with other components of the health system, and unexciting/unattractive conditions for physicians.
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. An accountable business plan, including a subscription service as well as fee for service, will be sustainable by 2026.
To achieve the mission our favorite quote we believe in- “What we have before us are some breath-taking opportunities disguised as insoluble problems.” John W. Gardner, speech, 1965
WHAT MAKES US SPECIAL
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US
I am literally overwhelmed after seeing the activities of Amader Gram.
I must congratulate the whole team for their excellent job. I hope and pray that this team effort expands gradually and can be a source of replication for other organizations.
I will always remain beside this great organization.
From the beginning, Amader Gram has worked side-by-side with community stakeholders to develop innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to improving the health and livelihoods of rural families in Bangladesh. Their efforts empower community members with the knowledge and skills they need to initiate change. It has been a highlight of my career to have worked with and learned from Reza Salim and the team at Amader Gram.
Bangladesh inherited an urban-based health care system; the majority of people lives in rural areas where getting health care is related to time-distance-money and associated costs. Amader Gram with its IT solution approach can support to address costs and provide high-quality health care.
