In remote villages, elderly people, women and children often go without regular health checkups. Since 2016 Lamppost has taken free medical care to them: volunteer doctors examine people on the spot, give prescriptions and show families how to reach affordable treatment.
At A Glance
- Who we serve: distressed elderly people, women, children, flood-affected families and tea garden workers
- Where: villages of Pirganj and Ranisankail, Bochaganj in Dinajpur and a border tea garden
- Cost to patients: free of charge
Our Camps
- 29 April 2016: a free health camp in Potuapara, a village on the Pirganj–Ranisankail border, served 57 elderly people. It was planned and staffed by Dr. AKM Ruhul Amin, one of Lamppost’s founding members. Read the report
- 2017: after the sudden floods in the north, a mobile medical camp examined more than 200 elderly people and children in Madhabpur, Khekidanga and Dangapara villages of Union No. 11, Pirganj, and gave them medicine free. It was supervised by Dr. Fahmida Shipa. Read the report
- 4 October 2019: the fourth free health camp was held at Senihari Government Primary School in Nafanagar Union, Bochaganj, Dinajpur. From 3 pm to 6 pm, Lamppost General Secretary Dr. AKM Ruhul Amin Prince examined 77 women, children and elderly people and wrote prescriptions. Read the report
- October 2022: a day-long health advice camp for workers of a tea garden in a remote border area gave essential advice to 50 tea workers and their family members, with thanks to Dr. Md. Abdullah Al Mesbahuddin. Read the report