RANGPUR, May 17, 2025 (BSS) - The Directorate General of Health Services in association with LAMB Hospital and UNFPA is preparing to ensure emergency reproductive health care for pregnant mothers at flood risk and humanitarian assistance in char areas.

Under the program, humanitarian response awareness meetings and volunteer orientation programs were arranged in Gaibandha, Kurigram, Jamalpur and Sirajganj over the past four days to make initial preparations for this purpose.
 
Every year, the locals, especially pregnant and lactating mothers, face terrible losses due to seasonal or flash floods in char areas along the Brahmaputra and Jamuna rivers.
 
To address this reality, a reproductive health care program has been running since 2019 under joint initiative of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Directorate General of Health Services with technical assistance from Lamb Hospital in the region.

Reproductive Maternal Neonatal Child-Adolescent Health (SRMNCAH) Project Manager of LAMB Hospital Mahatab Liton highlighted activities related to reproductive health, including mobile camps, baby kit distribution, and referral support in the events.

LAMB Monitoring and Documentation Coordinator Abu Ibn Al Asad coordinated the programs, co-facilitated by the project's district facilitators Monjuara Begum, Ruhul Amin Mridha and Sariful Islam.
 
At the events, sixty volunteers were also given necessary guidance for identifying fistula patients in char areas.
 
In Kurigram, Civil Surgeon Dr Swapan Kumar Biswas stressed on preparing a list of pregnant mothers in flood-prone char areas, ensuring four checkups and their institutional delivery during floods.
 
Deputy Director of the Family Planning Department of Kurigram Md Modabber Hossain said the process of preparing a list of pregnant mothers was continuing in eight unions of Nageshwari, Ulipur, Chilmari and Sadar upazilas.

In Gaibandha, UNFPA Field Officer Dr Shahin Akhter facilitated the programs.

Gaibandha Family Planning Department Deputy Director Md Tariqul Islam said that initial preparation is very important to ensure safe delivery and emergency healthcare for pregnant mothers during floods.