2020
Medical Volunteer — Dulupara Youth Organization, Bandarban
Provided consultation and basic treatment to over 200 underserved patients at a free medical camp in a remote area.
Beyond clinical practice
Community engagement.
Free medical camps in remote areas, COVID-19 awareness work in rural villages, and ongoing advisory support to students — the work that happens outside a salaried post.
Volunteer & advisory work
Four commitments, ongoing and past.
2020
Medical Volunteer — Friends Club of Bandarban
Took part in a COVID-19 awareness campaign and medical outreach programme, offering health education and consultations in a rural village.
Ongoing
Advisor — Bangladesh Tanchangya Students Welfare Forum
Provides guidance and support to student-led initiatives focused on educational and social development within the Tanchangya community.
Kushtia Medical College
Active Member — Medicine Club
Engaged in health awareness campaigns, blood donation drives, and medical volunteering as part of a nationwide student health initiative.
Free medical camp
Meraingprue Para, March 2020.
A day with the Friends Club of Bandarban at Meraingprue Para, Taracha Union, Rowangchhari — a coronavirus awareness session, then free consultation and medicine, alongside masks, mosquito nets and school supplies for the village.
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The notice
Coronavirus awareness, free consultation and medicine, and a distribution of masks, school supplies, mosquito nets and coils.
The ground
The whole camp fits in one clearing: a table under the banner, a hand-lettered sign, and the village around it.
The session
The awareness session opens — what the virus is, how it spreads, and what a household can do about it.
The session
Children take the front row on the tarpaulin; the rest of the village listens from the shade.
The session
Organisers and village elders at the table while the session runs.
Consultations
Consultations begin under a hand-lettered sign. The same table served as the dispensary.
Consultations
A consultation in the open air, with the next patients waiting a step away.
Consultations
Two of the team lean in to hear an elderly patient over the noise of the crowd.
Medicines
Paracetamol, oral saline and other basics, written up by hand for each patient.
Medicines
A prescription read over before the medicines are handed across.
From the field
Alikadam, through the pandemic.
Training rooms, supply handovers and community sessions from the COVID-19 programme in Bandarban — the work behind the case study.
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Bandarban · Jan 2021
Two days of COVID-19 management training for medical officers, nurses, paramedics and mobile medical unit staff, at the GRAUS conference room.
Bandarban · Jan 2021
The facilitation team and participating healthcare staff at the close of the training.
Alikadam · 2021
Infection prevention and control training opens at the Upazila Health Complex conference room.
Alikadam · 2021
The funders, partners and objectives of the programme are set out before the clinical content begins.
Alikadam · 2021
Nurses and community health workers practise the handwashing sequence step by step.
Alikadam · 23 May 2021
Risk communication and community engagement training begins at the Upazila Family Planning office.
Alikadam · 23 May 2021
The ten principles of community engagement, from a rights-based approach through to do no harm.
Alikadam · 23 May 2021
A participant talks the room through the preventive measures she will carry back to her catchment area.
Alikadam · 2021
Questions from the floor — most of the room works in the villages the messages are written for.
Alikadam · 2021
Examination gloves checked against the delivery paperwork before they go into the store.
Alikadam · 2021
Medical oxygen regulators handed over to the health complex.
Why it matters
The same instinct, without the institution behind it.
A free camp in a remote area and a district COVID-19 programme ask for the same thing: show up where the care is thinnest, and bring people with you.