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Mental health disorders pose a critical burden globally, 400 million incident and 1.1 billion prevalent cases; and in Bangladesh, 10.38 million incident and 24.05 million prevalent cases in 2023. Despite the mental health burden in Bangladesh, the majority of the people (> 90%) do not receive required services, due to the concentration of service providers in big cities, leaving rural and marginalized people disproportionately affected. Therefore, to address these barriers, the Non-Communicable Disease Control (NCDC) programme established tele-mental health services in government facilitated Wellbeing Centers at district and sub-district level. Thus, our study aimed to assess early implementation outcomes of the Wellbeing Center model.