Master_REPORT_On_Compensation_and_Benefi

3.1 Health Care Project
Dushtha Shasthya Kendra (DSK) was initially organized to address healthcare needs of the
slum- dwellers in Dhaka. Over the reporting year, in order to be more responsive and
effective to the needs of urban and rural poor, it has diversified its program interventions and
did increase its geographical coverage in both rural and urban areas. DSK is committed to
address various social and economic problems of the economically depressed and vulnerable
groups in general, of which women constitute a specific category. Objectives of Health Care
Program are:
‣ To reduce the extreme poverty by ensuring the availability, accessibility & affordability
of the essential health services, in a preventive manner; addressing the global health
indicators to improve the community health status.
‣ To ensure the health sustainability by involving the stakeholders in all levels of
planning, implementation & monitoring through organizing and strengthening the
community based institutions.
3.2 DSK Hospital & Maternity
DSK is maintaining a well-equipped hospital at Mohammadpur area in Dhaka city. The
hospital was started having a grant support from Swiss Red Cross (SRC) in 1999. Now it is
running on the basis of the income of the hospital and subsidy from DSK HQ. It is a low cost
Hospital and targets patients from slum and low income areas; intends to cover patients from
following income categories: extreme poor, poor and low income people in Dhaka and
outside. The facilities of the hospital are outpatient, inpatient, emergency, operation,
ambulance, diagnostics services and specialist consultations.
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