5 Taka CLINIC

Affordable Maternal Healthcare for Underserved Communities

Overview

5 Taka CLINIC is Mazeda Youth Foundation’s (MYF) flagship maternal health initiative, based in Nayongor, Shahrasthi, Chandpur. It provides essential maternal healthcare services to marginalized and ultra-poor mothers at a symbolic cost of just 5 Taka — removing the financial barrier that too often stands between a mother and safe, timely care during pregnancy and childbirth.
The initiative combines an on-the-ground clinic with a digital support platform, ensuring mothers in remote river-basin communities along the Dakatia and Meghna have access to care, guidance, and emergency support whenever they need it.

The App

The 5 Taka CLINIC web app — available in Bengali, English, and Nepali — connects mothers, health workers, and volunteers with:

• Pregnancy tracking and health guidance
• Appointment and checkup scheduling
• Emergency contact and referral support
• Health education resources for safe pregnancy and delivery

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Why Normal (Vaginal) Delivery Matters

A central focus of 5 Taka CLINIC is promoting and enabling safe normal delivery over unnecessary or unplanned cesarean sections — a critical issue in rural Bangladesh, where C-section rates have risen sharply, often driven by cost incentives, lack of skilled birth attendants, or limited access to proper prenatal monitoring rather than medical necessity.
Normal delivery matters because it:

• Reduces health risks for the mother — lower risk of infection, faster recovery, and fewer complications in future pregnancies compared to surgical delivery
• Is significantly more affordable — unnecessary C-sections push poor families into medical debt they cannot recover from
• Supports better newborn health outcomes — natural delivery is associated with better initial respiratory and immune benefits for the baby
• Requires proper prenatal care, not surgery, to succeed — which is exactly what 5 Taka CLINIC provides: consistent checkups, early risk detection, and trained guidance so mothers can safely deliver naturally whenever possible
• By keeping mothers engaged in regular, low-cost prenatal care, 5 Taka CLINIC reduces the panic-driven, last-minute C-sections that often occur when complications go undetected until delivery day.

Our Funding Challenge

5 Taka CLINIC operates on minimal resources, sustained largely through community goodwill and MYF’s own limited funds. This severely limits the clinic’s ability to:

• Provide advanced diagnostic equipment (such as ultrasound machines)
• Expand staffing with trained midwives and health workers
• Reach more remote villages in the Dakatia-Meghna basin
• Scale from a single clinic into comprehensive maternal health coverage for the region

MYF has appealed to international partners — including the Bahrain, German, Italian, Japanese, and French Embassies, along with UNFPA — for funding support, including a direct request to the Bahrain Embassy for an ultrasound machine. Sustainable funding remains the single biggest constraint on how many mothers this program can reach.

Our Vision: A Dedicated Maternity Hospital

Building on the foundation laid by 5 Taka CLINIC, MYF’s long-term goal is to construct a dedicated maternity hospital in Shahrasthi, Chandpur — a permanent, fully-equipped facility offering:

• Safe delivery rooms staffed by trained midwives and doctors
• Emergency obstetric care for high-risk pregnancies
• Prenatal and postnatal care under one roof
• Newborn care facilities
• Affordable or free care for ultra-poor mothers who currently have no nearby hospital option

A permanent maternity hospital would transform 5 Taka CLINIC from a community outreach program into a lasting healthcare institution — ensuring that no mother in this region has to travel hours or risk an unsafe delivery due to lack of access to proper facilities.

Get Involved

Every contribution — whether funding equipment, supporting clinic operations, or backing our maternity hospital vision — directly saves mothers’ and newborns’ lives in one of Bangladesh’s most underserved regions.

📧 tareqmiazee@gmail.com
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📍 Field Clinic: Nayongor, Shahrasthi, Chandpur