Role of Health Desk

Health is the most basic and significant service when it comes to provide facilitation to urban refugees particularly to the extremely vulnerable population including children, pregnant and lactating women, and people with special needs and elderly. The following tasks are being performed for the facilitation of urban refugees within health domain:

• Mapping of health sector service providers
• Coordinate with health facilities and authorities beforehand so that patient is treated without delay
• Provide counseling to the patients and refer them to their nearest facility
• Coordination with local health authorities for any unforeseen situation
• Desk officer facilitate the access of urban refugees to health facilitating centers, BHUs, DHQs etc. and DHOs at tehsil level.
• Vaccination campaigns are being conducted to facilitate the urban refugees.