A consultative Forum on Home Health Care Assistant (Caregiver) Training and Employment Program jointly hosted by Sheba and Alternative Approach on the15th January, 2020 at the board room of The Daily Amader Notun Shomoy. The meeting was presided over by Mrs Nasima Khan, editor, The Amader Notun Shomoy. The representatives of both organizations attended the forum. Dignitaries from print and electronic media, Directors of different government and private hospitals, various medical specialists, Bureaucrats, journalists, engineers and representative from other NGOs participated in the discussion forum.
There was a presentation on the concept and the vision was outlined.
Both organizations agreed to launch a Caregiver (Home Health Care Assistant) training and employment program in Dhaka city through a joint collaboration. The participants of the consultative forum gave their inputs and encouragement to the project.
The aim of the project will be to train human resource to provide home health care to the elderly, disabled and palliative care patient of the less affluent population group in Dhaka city.