PHD’s Response to COVID-19 in Mulvibazar
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The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time and the greatest challenge we have faced since World War II. Since its emergence in Asia late last year, the virus has spread to every continent except Antarctica. Cases are rising daily in the Americas, Europe and Asia as well. Countries are racing to slow the spread of the disease by testing and treating patients, carrying out contact tracing, limiting travel, quarantining citizens, and cancelling large gatherings such as sporting events, concerts, and schools. In such situation, PHD initiated a process to develop its Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Remote Working Guideline as the basic living documents to maintaining the delivery of services, or quickly resuming them from any kind of business disruption. Accordingly, PHD team in collaboration with UNICEF planned the immediate COVID 19 response for the target population of existing ImSRHR&MNH project in Moulvibazar district. |
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PHD response are: 1. Distribution of IEC materials: To create awareness among the community people PHD filed staffs disseminated IEC materials (1186 Poster and leaflet) at community level including tea garden area in collaboration with the local health department of Bangladesh government after collecting from Government’s Health Department and UNICEF office. 2. Small Group Community meeting and courtyard meeting: Initially the project conducted small group courtyard meeting and community people. 1524 meetings already conducted by Community Health Volunteer (CHV) and Union Facilitator (UF). The prime concern of the courtyard 3. Distance communication for counseling: Community Health Volunteer (CHV) and Union Facilitator (UF) are keeping regular communication with Pregnant Women and providing health message during pregnancy period specially ANC, birth plan and encouraging them for institutional delivery. The team has done 8683 mobile call with pregnant women to disseminate GoB provided health information. CHV and UF are creating linkage among the service providers and PWs through the distance communication. 4. Hand washing demonstration in very small group: CHVs are hired from local community so that they can work with community people exclusively. CHVs are instructed to demonstrate hand wash in very small group maintaining required distance. Accordingly they also make them convinced of the importance of hand washing, personal hygiene at the same time make them able to prepare mask and soppy water using local technique. 753 hand washing demonstration event conducted in community level (individual and jointly with courtyard session).
Prior to the pandemic situation, the project has organized 25 School debate competition at high School level. The programs contained the discussion topics related with Health, Nutrition and Wash. As in that moment Corona virus was just introducing in Bangladesh the discussion also incorporated with ‘Covid-19’. Around 1285 student at a time got informed of covid-19 and they were instructed to make aware of their parents and neighbor as well. 6. Awareness with Children: Awareness buildup activities among children also done with leaflet. They are informed of hand washing process, means of social distance, 7. Referral of Pregnant women to Service delivery points: Community Health Volunteer (CHVs) maintain regular community with PW and service providers to ensure referral cases. CHVs continues counseling with PWs for ANC, normal delivery at health facility, and PNC service receiving. During the pandemic period 193 pregnant women referred to health facility`s from community level.
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meetings was to create awareness on COVID-19, what to do during the covid situation like; washing hand with soap for minimum 20 seconds, use hand sanitizer, maintaining social/physical distance, avoiding mass gathering, stay at home, use of mask etc.
5. School Debate Competition program: 
encouraged them to stay at home for personal safety.
