Sylhet Bureau :
A Sharing meeting was held with trained community health workers from the tea gardens and the Patra community of Sylhet and representatives of various sectors working in family planning in Sylhet on maternal and adolescent reproductive health services. This meeting was held at the Family Planning District Office in Sylhet city on Tuesday.
The Ethnic Community Development Organization (ECDO) organized this meeting under the project to improve maternal and adolescent reproductive health in the tea gardens and the Patra community of Sylhet. In this meeting, responsible representatives from various sectors of family planning, trained community health workers from the tea gardens and the Patra community and tea workers discussed their activities and problems.
The organizers said that female tea workers in the tea gardens of Sylhet are deprived of minimum healthcare. However, in order to ensure that they are not deprived of maternal health care, 25 women from the tea gardens and the Patra community of Tukerbazar and Khadimnagar unions of Sylhet were trained with the help of IPASS Bangladesh. This exchange meeting was held to coordinate with the family planning workers at the field level and inform them about other family planning services.
In the meeting, Shayanmoni Goala, the midwife in charge of Kewachhara and Daldoli tea gardens, said that no female tea workers come to receive prenatal care.
