Friendship medics-aides deliver doorstep healthcare using mobile app by Naushad Ali Husein Shahjahan, 40, is suffering from severe diarrhoea. Given the nearest hospital is a four-hour journey over river and land, Shahjahan’s condition could easily prove fatal without...
Health care
Fleur’s Friendship Experience
Hi. I’m Fleur Hoving, from the Netherlands. I’m 22 years old and recently graduated from the VUMC School of Medical Sciences. Throughout September, I had the privelege of working with Friendship’s Health Sector. Ever since I was a small girl, I have been curious about...
Mashkura’s Motherhood
Mashkura, aged 28, wife of Abdul Hamid a shrimp-farmer, lives in the coastal village of Abadchondipur. She has grown up there, having had a happy, healthy childhood, and got married to a man that she thought would be able to give her a good life. By all rights, the...
MoU Signed Between Friendship and DGHS
A MoU has been signed between Friendship and the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to start operation of a comprehensive maternity centre (CMC) at the site of Friendship’s basic clinic 6, at Rohingya Camp 7, Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar. The United Nations High...