Study Overview

In Bangladesh, antenatal care (ANC) coverage is 82%, and in rural areas, it is 79%. However, the coverage of quality ANC is only 18% and in rural areas, it is 14%. Private healthcare facilities are preferred twice as much as public facilities. However, the quality of service of private facilities is not parallel to the public ones, having gaps in components of providing quality ANC following the international and national guidelines. Transforming a private facility into a Model ANC Clinic following international and national guidelines which is located at close proximity and at the centre point of the selected villages will offer quality ANC services to the pregnant women of those remote areas in Bangladesh. Therefore, to increase the antenatal service coverage in the rural areas, we are implementing a Model ANC Clinic in the Nagarkanda sub-district of Faridpur district following the WHO framework for the quality of maternal health care.