The floating hospitals and satellite clinics provide primary healthcare services in char and riverbank areas, but there also is an acute need for secondary healthcare. The LFH and EFH cater to this need through specialised health camps held free of cost. These health camps are organised regularly with specialist doctors from home and abroad to provide different types of secondary healthcare services such as eye, dental, ENT clinic and surgery, paediatric, orthopaedic, plastic-reconstructive surgery, post-operative care, specialist consultation and referral service.
Health camps are organised based on the need of a specific type of service in a particular area. Friendship’s strong partnership with international organisations such as the Doctor’s Bank of Sweden and Humaniterra International from France has made it possible to bring some of the world’s most renowned doctors to voluntarily serve these marginalised communities. Friendship’s secondary healthcare programme has changed the lives of many people, particularly those affected with catract, cleft-lip, club-foot and burn contracture.