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Press Release - Grameen Healthcare Services Limited (GHS) (April 22, 2020)
Grameen Healthcare Services Limited (GHS) is a social business organization. For more than one decade GHS has been providing healthcare services to the poor and downtrodden population in far reaching locations of the country. GHS is operating four eye hospitals in four different districts – Bogura, Barishal, Thakurgaon, and Satkhira. The aim of these hospitals is to provide modern eye care treatment to underprivileged people at an affordable cost. In addition, Grameen Caledonian College of Nursing, a sister concern of GHS, is providing high quality nursing education and training.
In light of the Coronavirus crisis, everyone including the rich, the middle class, and the poor are staying at home as a preventative measure. As a result, day laborers, workers and small business owners have became jobless and their source of income has been disrupted severely. As part of its social responsibility, Grameen Healthcare Services Ltd. has undertaken a three-month long 'Food Support Initiative' to help the families that are in dire need for food and welfare support. Initially GHS employees have generously donated their one (01) day's salary to help create the fund to support poor families. To continue the initiative GHS has created a relief fund to provide food support to the poor and underprivileged families in specific areas for the next three months.
As the part of this Food Support Program, GHS has already provided food and welfare support to 135 families. Considering the current situation GHS is planning to expand the program to support additional 405 families till June, 2020. Three hospitals under GHS have been carrying out the task of essential food distribution in Bogura, Barishal and Thakurgaon districts. Taking the number of family members into consideration, a maximum 10 kgs of rice, 2 kgs of lentil, 2 kgs of flour, 2 kgs of onion, 5 kgs of potatoes, 2 liters of soybean oil, 1kg of salt, 2 soaps and two hundred taka emergency cash is given as welfare and food support. Since everyone is under lockdown, GHS employees have delivered the food door to door.
Meanwhile the GHS hospitals continue their operation for essential and emergency eye care treatments. They are also providing counseling and raising patients’ awareness for preventive measures following the guidelines given by the World Health Organization.
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