QFFD, QRCS strengthen Bangladesh health sector

Doha, Qatar: With funding from Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) is implementing a project to improve and scale up...

Doha, Qatar: With funding from Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) is implementing a project to improve and scale up the quality of health services for Rohingya refugees and the host community in Bangladesh.

Under the project, QRCS operates Bangladesh Red Crescent Society’s (BDRCS) field hospital in Cox’s Bazar to provide comprehensive medical services for camp residents and the host community, helping enhance the quality of health care and reduce morbidity and mortality rates.

Since the project’s launch in March 2025, the field hospital has provided more than 40,000 medical consultations and received approximately 24,000 inpatients and outpatients, most of whom came from the Rohingya refugees camps.

The Epidemic Emergency Preparedness and Response Centre (EPRC) performed hundreds of screenings for serious infectious diseases, mainly dengue fever (with more than 150 confirmed cases), managed hundreds of acute diarrhoea cases, and investigated suspected cholera cases.

As part of the expansion plans, QRCS supplied and installed a fully equipped dental clinic, as a significant asset for the field hospital, addressing a real gap in oral and dental health services at camps and providing the host community with specialised diagnostic and treatment services.