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<p>Currently, Grameen Kalyan is operating through 140 Community Based Health Centers located in 30 districts of Bangladesh. Each year Grameen Kalyan provides healthcare services to around 700,000 (seven hundred thousand) people through its health centers and satellite programs. Besides that, additional 7 million people in rural communities receive free basic healthcare check-up under Grameen Kalyan&rsquo;s domiciliary and school health programs.</p>
<p>In the late nineties, a study revealed that without improvement in healthcare, the poor cannot stay out of poverty for long time. Microcredit could bring them out of poverty but to keep them out of poverty permanently, healthcare inequalities for the poor must be addressed. Observing the reality, Nobel Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Chairman of Grameen Kalyan undertook an experimental project named &ldquo;Rural Health Program (RHP)&rdquo; in 1993 through Grameen Trust. Upon its success, RHP was handed over to Grameen Kalyan (GK) in 1997 immediately after its inception and since then it has been operating as a core program of Grameen Kalyan.</p>
<p>Over the time, GK has evolved a cost-effective, equitable, self-sustainable and extended rural health program for the indigent people by implementing the concept of community-based health centers, bringing the health outreach services to the doorsteps of the villagers and mobilizing beneficiaries through Micro Health Insurance (MHI) scheme. Along with providing primary healthcare directly, Kalyan has been promoting secondary &amp; tertiary healthcare indirectly through functional referral services.</p>
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