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unlike most of the organizations in developing countries which treat scientific activities as luxury,
baDas gives great emphasis on research, which encompasses basic, clinical as well as public health
disciplines. on the other hand, researchers from baDas institutions have played a vital role in the
phenomenal development and expansion of the organizations in the last two decades. baDas
institutes have been able to create large collaborative research network in national, regional and
international levels.
baDas is an ideal example of public-private partnership in health as most of the physical and
equipment infrastructure of its facilities have been created through support from the government
and contributions from private persons/organizations. for operational expenditure some direct or
indirect support is received from the public sector, but baDas is unique in a sense that it is almost
self reliant in managing its revenue budget which approached approx 30 million us dollar in the
last financial year. unlike most other nGos in the country it does not depend on foreign or local
donors or charities to generate its fund; rather it raises resource by providing high quality services
to the people, both diabetic and nondiabetic. at the same time, baDas has developed a crossfinancing
model, to support diabetic patients in general and poor diabetic patients (identified
through a social welfare network) in particular, by redistribution of the resources. recently,
education and training are also becoming tools to generate resources which, in turn, are used
to generate manpower for diabetes care. along with financial sustainability baDas endeavors to
ensure organizational sustainability through a process of decentralization, community ownership,
and democratic management.
apart from being number one in diabetes care, baDas has become, next to the public sector,
the largest general health care provider and health manpower generating organization in
bangladesh. the model has attracted a great degree of attention from the government as well as
from the development partners, and presently a large scale pilot project (named as health Care
Development project or hCDp) is under implementation under baDas umbrella with an objective
to transform the diabetes care model to a health care model in general. if this piloting is successful
then baDas will be able to create further evidence of providing sustainable (with social safety net)
health care delivery for diabetes and other chronic illness as an integral part of general health care
delivery in a resource constrained setting.
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