MCH and Growth Monitoring Services

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In remote rural areas, the women and children are the main victims of poverty and other social affairs, which results in high maternal and child mortality rate and malnutrition. The staff members of VOSD time to time visit the houses and identify malnourished children and pregnant mothers and provide education and advice to them. In severe cases, they send them to the clinics of VOSD, bring in satellite clinics and also sent to the Upazila Health Complex for better and improved treatment. Even, the organization bears the expenditures for the very poor mothers and children. The organization has a MBBS Medical Officer and 3 Paramedic Doctors, who have been providing treatments to the patients through its clinics and in serious cases provides free medicines to the poor patients. Last year a total of 102,560 mothers and 45,980 children have been given treatments and other medical services. A total of 112,630 children have been monitored growth till today. Generally the growth monitoring is a continuous activity of the organization. The staff members identify the malnourished children under two and monitor growth continuously through providing supplementary feedings. They also counsel with their mothers on balance diet preparation, ORS preparation etc. and advice to feed balance diets to their children regularly. It has also been providing pre-natal, safe delivery and postnatal services to the pregnant mothers through its clinics and satellite clinics and also through house visits.