COMMUNITY HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
LAMB CHDP Department has the objectives of
- improving the lives of rural people through integrated health and community development activities, and
- empowering poor people for sustainable development.
CHDP operates in the northwest Bangladesh Districts of Dinajpur, Rangpur, and Nilphamari. Its focus is on poor communities, and particularly women and children who tend to be the more disadvantaged members of society
The main activities of CHDP are:
- primary care clinical services provision
- health promotion
- microcredit
- capacity building of communities
LAMB applies a holistic and integrated approach to healthcare in its community activities. Spiritual and emotional health are an integral part of the approach.
Another invaluable feature which LAMB is able to provide – and which appears to be a very successful model – is that LAMB staff work across a continuum of care, from households to village level in local clinics, to tertiary care at the hospital. This linked structure appears to encourage users, since the high level of quality control is always present, and the referral system is straightforward and known.