Provide Healthcare for Underserved Communities

Since 2023, Spreeha Foundation has significantly expanded its health program, growing from one clinic in Rayerbazar to six clinics across Dhaka and Gazipur. In April 2024 alone, Sneho Urgent Care centers served over 10,000 individuals, providing essential services such as doctor consultations, safe medications, and diagnostics.

We have developed tech-enabled, hyper-local urgent health centers strategically designed to cater to the immediate healthcare needs of our communities. Our vision extends beyond a single center - we plan to establish a network of these innovative facilities. Each center will be led by a trained native health professional and become financially sustainable after 12 months of supported operations. Strategically positioned within communities, these centers ensure residents within a 1-kilometer radius can easily access them within a 10–15-minute walk from their homes. This proximity facilitates convenient access to doctor consultations, safe medications, quality diagnostic tests, and urgent treatments.

Key Services and Impact

1. Immediate Healthcare Services: Our centers, led by trained health professionals, promptly address minor injuries like cuts and burns, providing nebulization, dressing, and first aid. By managing less severe cases locally, we alleviate strain on tertiary hospitals. Serious conditions are referred to our in-house general physician for further treatment and counseling, ensuring appropriate care without overwhelming higher-level facilities.

2. Maternal and Child Health: Our centers prioritize maternal and child health, with gynecologists and pediatricians available to serve our female beneficiaries, who constitute 70% of our patients. By addressing common health issues within the community, we enhance access to quality care, reduce hospital overcrowding, and allow doctors to devote more time to each patient, thereby enhancing overall healthcare efficiency.

3. Safe Medication and Quality Diagnostics: We ensure safe medication through reputable pharmaceutical sources, and patient guidance on proper medication intake. Our partnership with AmarLab, an innovative at-home diagnostic test company, ensures quality diagnostics at affordable prices. AmarLab’s trained sample collectors gather samples at our centers and use advanced transportation technology to maintain sample quality. Diagnostic tests are conducted with certified hospitals, ensuring accuracy and reliability of reports, unlike local diagnostic centers, guaranteeing necessary treatment for our patients. Additionally, we offer to send these reports directly, saving patients time and money on transportation.

4. Technological Integration: We maintain electronic health records (EHRs) for all patients, providing a repository of their medical history, treatments, and diagnostic reports for informed decisions. This data-driven approach facilitates proactive healthcare management and resource allocation, ultimately improving health outcomes. We keep watch on local disease trends through data analytics tools and analyze patterns to enable proactive healthcare planning and targeted interventions, enhancing surveillance capabilities, strengthening public health responses, and ultimately improving community health outcomes.

5. Reduced cost: To reduce healthcare costs, we adopted a B2B model, offering significant discounts on services to patients from underserved communities. We have partnerships with reputable pharmaceutical companies for discounts on medicines, vaccines, and medical supplies. Additionally, our diagnostic logistics partner, AmarLab, collaborates with esteemed diagnostic labs and hospitals, ensuring cost-effective and high-quality diagnostic tests. This model has helped us reduce costs for underserved patients.

Our continued efforts in expanding health programs and integrating advanced technology in healthcare delivery are making a significant impact. We remain committed to improving access to quality healthcare and reducing costs for underserved communities. By 2025, we aim to establish a network of 100 clinics, ensuring that healthcare is accessible, affordable, and efficient for all. Thank you for supporting us in this mission. 

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• Global Washington has featured our healthcare project!