Dushtha Shasthya Kendra (DSK) is a non-government voluntary development organization (NGO) operating to eliminate impoverishment of the targeted poor population in hard-to-reach remote areas (WetLand, Coastal Belt, and urban Slums) of the country. The organization’s aim is to remove the poverty of the people, make them self-dependent, and make them aware of their own rights.

Following this dream, an effort initiated by a group of people like professionals, doctors, and social activists who came forward voluntarily to facilitate Primary Health Care (PHC) activities under a cost-free health clinic named “Niramoy Free Friday Clinic” operating in slums in Tejgaon of Dhaka city in the mid-1980s. Consequently, during the great flood in 1988, DSK carried out a number of free healthcare service camps with a Medical Team to provide immediate relief and health care to flood-affected people in Dhaka city. At this stage, DSK as an organization became formalized and got registered as an NGO with the Directorate of Social Services (#: Dha-02273) on 24 April 1989 and in 1991 with NGO Affair’s Bureau (No 577). Besides, DSK received a license from the Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA No 02100-01985-000369) in 2009.DSK did also implement a PHC program from 1996 till 2012 (it continues to support the hospitalization cost of its MF borrowers and their family members to date).