IUBAT Alumnus Shares Her Experience with Compassion International

Nausheen Nafeez is a graduate of IUBAT and is currently a community health nurse with Compassion international, Bangladesh, an NGO that is involved with childrens’ health.

She writes: “I am happy to report that I am settling into my position here as the Health Specialist at Compassion International Bangladesh, an NGO aimed at alleviating the effects of poverty and encouraging healthy child development.  Compassion has 135 projects situated all over the country, and partners with churches and sponsors who help to run the organization, as well as help to support the children.

My role is mainly related to community health nursing, where I teach and advise the teachers about health in order to raise, improve, and maintain standards.  I advise and help with the health issues of the children, especially the complicated cases, and facilitate treatment for them with the right doctors and hospitals as necessary. As part of the Training and Support Team, I conduct training for the staff and project workers at Compassion. This position also allows me to get involved with networking and sharing ideas with other health-related organizations as we have a shared purpose in building a strong future for children in Bangladesh, particularly those in the lower class.

As I enter my fourth month, I am feeling better adjusted and I look forward to the many ways that I can grow in this position.  I am grateful for everything that has brought me here, including God and IUBAT, for the knowledge I have gained and the contribution to my life.  Teaching nursing at IUBAT remains in my thoughts and future plans, but for now, I am looking forward to working with Compassion. It is a big dream, and one of the major plans I had for my life.”

Congratulations to Nausheen on your new role and we wish you the best of luck in the future.  We hope to see you back at IUBAT soon!

IUBAT CON Delegation to Health Minister

IUBAT BSN students honour Health Minister. Prof. Dr. Ruhal Haque, the Honourable Minister of Health and Family Welfare, recently received a flower bouquet from a delegation of Bachelor’s Nursing students of IUBAT. The delegation appreciated the Honourable Minister for his wisdom and leadership in progress for the nursing profession.

IUBAT Alumni Travels Internationally Promoting Local NGO

Noor Sabez, an IUBAT graduate is now working for the NGO, Socio Economic Development Association for Disabled (SEDAD) as well as working as a community health nurse throughout Bangladesh. He writes, “My responsibilities are to lead some projects and coordinate the staff and administrative work such as proposal writing, concept note writing, report writing, letter writing to donor organizations etc. However, I am also doing community health education and a general heath checkup program to the disabled, destitute, disadvantaged, distressed and poor communities in different districts of Bangladesh. Currently we are planning to provide physiotherapy to the physically disabled persons.  I am enjoying it very much and also have some opportunity to perform internationally. I went to Italy to give a presentation in a congress about the Social Impacts on Medical Practice in Bangladesh. It was a wonderful experience in my life that I performed internationally which leads me to be more confident as I am so young. The main purposes of us to visit different countries are to do training, meeting with donor organization and giving presentation about our activities etc”. Noor is looking forward to possibly going to Japan for physiotherapy training in the coming months. Congratulations on your accomplishments Noor and best of luck in the future!