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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	716	1,288	5,326
2018	288	928	747	321	999	1,915	860	6,058
2019	176	668	411	178	753	1,750	348	4,288
2020	267	296	211	21	201	0	143	1,126
2021	556	476	167	29	0	13	19	1,210
2022	213	480	370	92	0	0	8	1,085
2023	149	192	195	128	0	0	10	622
Total	8,978	19,991	14,532	4,087	37,698	4,394	3,280	92,771

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