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Major Activities

In Health sector, UT’s activities are still limited to Primary Health Care Service.

1. Diagnostic Facilities
It has established, so far, 04 Rural Hospitals at Maloncha (Jamalpur), Shamur Barhi (Louhojong), Nijkunzora (Chagolnaiya) and Motkhola (Kishoreganj).

These hospitals have busy outdoors with reasonably good diagnostic facilities: Pathological Lab, ECG, USG, X-ray etc.

It’s indoor is open to Eye treatments only: cataract, DCT, DCR etc.
2. Clinics
Besides these, we have 4 more outdoor clinics at Momenabad (Jamalpur), Sribordi (Sherpur), Hossainpur (Gaibandha) and Moulvi Tea State Outdoor Clinic (Moulvibazar).

Most of these have basic diagnostic facilities. These are run by a full-time paramedic with doctor’s schedule 2-3 days a week.
3. Free Treatment
At the moment, on an average, we facilitate over 1,75,000 outdoor patients; about 25% of these patients receive free medicines. We also conduct over 6000 cataract operations annually almost free of cost for poor patients and very affordable package options for the middle earners.

Medical Facilities

Patients Receive Free Medicines

Rural Hospitals

Outdoor Medical Camps per year

Cataract Operations per year

Outdoor Clinics

Outdoor Patients

Doctors

Besides these, UT also undertakes following events basically for the poor and rural society:

1. Outdoor Medical Camps
We conduct on an average of 10-15 Outdoor Medical Camps per year in collaboration with Specialized Hospitals like Society for Assistance to Hearing Impaired Children (SAHIC), Starkey Hearing Foundation – USA, United Hospital Limited, Disabled Rehabilitation & Research Association (DRRA), Kingston Hospital etc.

These are held in the vicinity of our Health Clinics and selected Slums of Dhaka City. Over 3,000 patients get benefits out of these camps. About one third of them also receive follow-up indoor treatment for complete cure.
2. Facilities for Underprivileged Patients
It also arranges need based secondary health care services to the ultra-poor patients, especially the children and young people, suffering from curable diseases.

These are arranged in collaboration with few Govt. and private hospitals of Dhaka and other Division towns under our organized network.
3. Melandah Thana Health Complex
UT also involved itself in capacity building of the Govt. Health Care Facilities. In 2017-18, as a pilot project, it renovated Melandah Thana Health Complex and introduced a standard healthcare system for patients and doctors in collaboration with Civil Surgeon and DG Health office.

It proved to be a landmark project. We are aiming to renovate few more in future.