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Statistics

Year	Health Status (NCDs)				VBB	TeleEye	TelePathology	Total
2010	103	15	248	10	0	0	0	376
2012	1,056	4,035	1,084	237	0	0	0	6,412
2013	1,595	6,781	4,301	546	784	0	0	14,007
2014	1,004	2,278	1,659	326	22,067	0	0	27,334
2015	1,330	1,429	2,016	772	10,065	0	0	15,612
2016	1,875	1,614	2,255	1,069	1,898	0	604	9,315
2017	366	799	868	358	931	4,105	1,288	8,715
2018	288	928	747	321	999	11,258	860	15,401
2019	176	668	411	178	753	9,807	348	12,345
2020	267	296	211	21	201	0	143	1,126
2021	556	476	167	29	0	379	19	1,576
2022	213	478	370	99	0	36,180	8	37,268
2023	289	280	269	192	0	52,463	1	53,419
2024	153	56	195	140	0	55,215	1	55,732
Total	9,271	20,133	14,801	4,298	37,698	169,407	3,272	258,638

Overview

Portable Health Clinic (PHC) aims to build an affordable, usable and sustainable preventive healthcare system for unreached people. Portable Health Clinic has four major modules (1) Health Clinic box with different medical sensors (2) An empowered female healthcare entrepreneur (we call her Grameen Healthcare Lady) (3) GramHealth software tool to store and manage healthcare data (4) A doctor call center in urban areas to provide suggestions to the patients by using video conferencing tool.

Brief History:

The project was initiated by Dr. Ashir Ahmed in 2008. JST and Fukuoka IST funded the project for the survey and design a booth shaped clinic. In 2009, the health clinic was redesigned to make it portable and modular suggested by Professor Muhammad Yunus and Professor Hiroto Yasuura. In 2010, we served 600 families in Ekhlaspur to develop the GramHealth Database. In 2011, we carried out our portable health clinic trials in Basundia, Panchagarh and Rampal by using urban doctors.

Square Hospitals collaborated with us to provide online doctors. In 2012, the project became larger and focused on non-communicable diseases by the supervision of Dr. Nakashima in Kyushu University. Dr. Kuroda from NICT added BAN (Body Area Network) in the medical sensors for easier inputs of medical data. In 2013, we employed two professional nurses graduated from Grameen Caledonian College of Nursing to test the model the activities of a Grameen Healthcare Lady.

Core Members:

• Dr. Ashir Ahmed (Project Owner and Design)
• Dr. Rafiqul Islam Maruf (Design, Implementation and Management)
• Zahidul Hossein Ripon (Technical Development)
• • Md Mahmudur Rahman (Technical Development)

Collaboration Researchers (Kyushu University, Japan):

• Dr. Naoki Nakashima (Non-Communicable Disease expert, Physician)
• Dr. Yasunobu Nohara (Software Design and Coordination)
• Dr. Andrew Rebeiro-Hargrave (Quality of Service Management)

Countries Reached:

• Bangladesh
• India
• Pakistan
• Cambodia
• Liberia