ASF contributes to DMC’s physiotherapy service
Burn is one of Bangladesh’s major public health concerns with over 300k people experiencing burn injuries every year and only 628 burn physiotherapists practicing.
Unpopular profession, burn physiotherapists are rare to come by in the country causing health centers and hospitals like Dhaka Medical College (DMC) to suffer from the shortfall.
From 2013 up until 2016 ASF medical coordinator and burn physiotherapist Hridita Haider practiced in DMC. In 2017 she concluded her work at the hospital after she had helped train DMC’s six newly recruited physiotherapists for a year.
In the year between 2017 and 2021, four of the physiotherapists were relocated and the remaining two-faced trouble showed up at the hospital due to the Pandemic.
On 11 December 2021, as Hridita visited DMC to discuss the reopening of ASF’s PG unit, officials expressed their eagerness to have Hridita back onboard.
“I am greatly honored DMC remembered me in these trying times after all these years. I’m starting work the first week of January and look forward to serving more burn survivors”, said Hridita.
