HealthConsult Associates Ltd. established with experts having experiences of working with the public and private sectors from national policy to field implementation levels. A good number of HAL experts and associates have direct work experiences with two flagship projects of the Bangladesh health sector; the EU funded TFIPP of the forth five year health and population programme and the DFID funded PPP and IHI of HPSP/HNPSP. In addition to these experiences of HAL core experts included the World Bank, UN agencies, GTZ, DANIDA and a good number of INGOs. HAL is working in close cooperation with NICO that incorporated NICARE (Northern Ireland Health and Social Services) to further build on the successful experiences gained by Nicare in running four projects in Bangladesh and drawing from its vast international experiences in Health and Social sectors.

HealthConsult Associates Ltd (HAL) is a Private Limited company by shares registered in Bangladesh under the 1994 Company act with a wide chartered covering all aspects of Health. Particular focuses included:
a) Health Sector reform issues,
b) Capacity building of Public, NGO, CBOs and for-profit Private sectors,
c) Project formulation, implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
d) HRD and Training
e) Research and Studies and
f) Use of IT.

Interventions:
Starting in 2004 it started to contribute in capacity building of the public as well as NGOs and for-profit private sectors and have provided a number of small but of important TA.

Mentioned below some of the innovative ongoing interventions of HAL:

a) Development and maintenance of interactive web portals
To assist optimum information dissemination and interactive communication in the health sector HAL is in the final stage of launching a master web portal www.bdhealth.info It will aim to contain all pertinent information related to health in Bangladesh starting from census data, vital statistics, policy strategy documents, learning dossiers etc. In launching these web portals, HAL encouraging individuals, public health professionals, health ngos and others to use www.bdhealth.info to find pre-screened information for solving health challenges. The service will be free to users and web network members. Individual and institutional members will post their profiles on the site. Donors and clients will contact members directly. Members ill also receive info updates on important policy strategic issues, notification on events, adds, job opportunities and bidding opportunities that donors and clients post.
b) Library/electronic document archive and dispatch services
When there is need to explore new solutions to health challenges at the same time it can be seen that sharing and use of already available learning experience are not done optimally. Non-availability of documents on continuum learning on health sector experiences at a know place is a constraint for this. HAL is therefore building a Library and an electronic document archive for making available to prospective users at need.
c) Work with Private Sector:
Pre packaged services for the fast growing private hospitals will include: Training on Hospital management, application of computerized MIS, waste disposal and health/hygiene training for menial staff. Together with Association of Private Hospital/Clinic and DGHS, HAL will make efforts towards introducing a private hospital QA, medical audit and rating system.
d) Health Systems capacity building:
Capacity building will be done through the following:
- Health Leadership development training
- TA for programme review, development of health sector strategy paper, design/re-design programme, monitoring and evaluation
- Integrating Health into poverty alleviation programme and targeting the hardcore poor
- Development of Community based Organizations for Health
- Public-Private-Partnership development
- Mainstreaming Gender in Health
- In-country and regional study visits

e) Development/running non conventional health courses:
Following non conventional health courses will be developed and run:-
 - Health/hygiene training for street food sellers
- Computerized MIS for health projects

Contact Address:
House # 682, Block # F, Bashundhara Residential Area
Park Road, Dhaka - 1212
Tel: : (+88)-02- 8845220
Fax: (+88)-02-8845297
Cell: (+88)-01552399481
Email: mail@healthconsultassociates.com
Webportal: www.bdhealth.info
 
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