Bangladesh being one of the poor countries in the world is low on basic health care facilities. It is primarily an agricultural country with bulk of the population living in the rural areas which have little or no public health care facilities. All this has taken a toll on the overall population of the the …
Category Archive: Health
Nov
27
Eye Camp Of October 2010 Providing Free Cataract Surgeries
Photos of eye camp of Touching Souls International in Rangamati, Savar, Bangladesh, which was held in October 17th, 2010. Around 600 patients were screened for their eye problems. 300 patients got eye medicines. 70 patients received eye glasses. 25 patients were taken to Mymensingh BNBS Eye hospital to get their cataract surgeries. On October 19, …
Nov
20
Child Health In A Developing Country
The largest subjects of a low income troubled region will most certainly be the children. Bangladesh, a developing country has a hopeless reputation about child health and well being. Most of the kids in the area particularly while in the non-urban places suffer from extreme malnutrition. The condition is aggravated as being Bangladesh is probably …
Nov
18
Save The Cataract Blind living in a Third World Country
Blindness, especially relating to cataracts, creates a primary issue in any third world countries. Bangladesh, as one of the developing countries, has a large number of blind persons requiring cataract removal surgeries. Cataract is the reason for 80% of adult blindness and there are currently anywhere in the region of 750,000 men and women who …
Nov
15
Anna Talukder Hysterectomy Surgery Recipient of August 2010
30 year old Anna Talukder of Middle Halishar, Hindupara, Bandar, Chittagong, Bangladesh is a hysterectomy surgery recipient of August 2010 from Touching Souls International. She was diagnosed with Second degree uterine prolapse. She was suffering from feeling of heaviness or pressure in the pelvis, pain in the pelvis, abdomen or lower back, pain during intercourse, …
Nov
15
Touching Souls International Provides Surgical Treatment For Kids With Clubfoot
Touching Souls International, a nonprofit organization provides free clubfoot surgeries for very needy kids in Nurture General Hospital, Chittagong, Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, there are many kids who are born with clubfoot and without the ability to have the proper treatment. Touching Souls International finance the surgical treatment of these patients. Clubfoot is a general term …
Nov
06
Providing Free Cleft Lip Surgery-One Of The Project Of Touching Souls International
One year old Moslima of Patgram, Rangpur, Bangladesh was born with cleft lip. After her birth all the family members and neighbors was blaming Moslima’s mom for this. They were blaming her mom, she had committed some big crime or sin that her daughter was born with such cleft deformities. On July of 2009, Moslima …
Nov
03
What More Someone Can Ask From A Philanthropic Organization?
Blindness due to cataract presents an enormous problem in Bangladesh in terms of economic loss and social burden. Although cataract blindness is curable by cataract removal surgery there are many barriers for it for the disadvantaged people of Bangladesh. Such as financial reasons, distance from the health care facility, fear, lack of service awareness, lack …
Nov
02
Saving One Patient At A Time
35 year old Begum Rokeya, housewife was diagnosed with bleeding haemorrhoid. For last seven years she was having severe pain and bleeding from her haemorrhoid. For that she was suffering iron deficiency anemia resulting from her prolonged loss of blood. Her condition was going worse day by day. Her family could not provide her the …
Nov
01
Hysterectomy Surgery Recipent Mohsena Begum
46 years old Mohsena Begum of Ruma para, Poticchori, Chittagong had uterine fibroid which was giving her discomfort and she was getting all the complications such as anemia from heavy blood loss. Her doctor diagnosed her fibroid tumor was growing out of the uterus on a stalk-like projection. She was going through with a sudden, …
