UNB, Dhaka :
A study, conducted by icddr,b, found that Dhaka city has 105.5 health facilities per 100,000 population while approximately 4.4 hospital bed per 1000 population.
However, cantonment areas are not included in the Dhaka city, now divided into two parts – Dhaka North and Dhaka South – under two separate city corporations. Centre for Equity and Health Systems of the icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh) carried out the survey utilising the information technology and other supports, identified through a mapping out work that Dhaka city has a total of 12,809 health facilities of which more than 94 percent belong to the private sector.
The study finding was unveiled at a seminar at the icddr,b auditorium on Thursday where Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq was present as the chief guest.
At the function, the iccddr,b launched an atlas on health through two websites (http://urbanhealthatlas.dghs.gov.bd and urbanhealthfacilities.icddrb.org) having same contains of whole map of the health facilities in Dhaka city which anybody can browse and search for doctors, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and other facilities. Additional director general (planning and development) Dr Abul Kalam Azad, executive director of icddr,b Dr John Clemens, deputy director Dr Abbas Bhuiyan and senior
social scientist Dr Alayne M Adams also spoke on the occasion.
Annisul Huq appreciated the icddr,b move and urged them to link it with city corporation website.
He said, the DNCC has initiated a move to establish a central control centre to monitor traffic, healthcare, cleaning and road management through digital systems.
The icddr,b study, titled ‘Mapping the Urban Health Services Landscape in Dhaka City’, revealed that the city have 1,800 doctors’ chambers, and over 3,000 doctors’ chambers attached to pharmacies. There are 5,000 pharmacies throughout the city.
The study said there is a higher concentration for health workforce in Dhaka city than anywhere else in the country. Its analysis showed that dramatic geographical inequalities exist in the distribution of doctors with respect to population, especially in case of the poor and the disadvantaged.
Primary healthcare services are mostly delivered at doctors’ chambers and NGO facilities closer to the community. But unfortunately, not all the NGO facilities are open after hours when it is more convenient for the working population to seek healthcare.
A study, conducted by icddr,b, found that Dhaka city has 105.5 health facilities per 100,000 population while approximately 4.4 hospital bed per 1000 population.
However, cantonment areas are not included in the Dhaka city, now divided into two parts – Dhaka North and Dhaka South – under two separate city corporations. Centre for Equity and Health Systems of the icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh) carried out the survey utilising the information technology and other supports, identified through a mapping out work that Dhaka city has a total of 12,809 health facilities of which more than 94 percent belong to the private sector.
The study finding was unveiled at a seminar at the icddr,b auditorium on Thursday where Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq was present as the chief guest.
At the function, the iccddr,b launched an atlas on health through two websites (http://urbanhealthatlas.dghs.gov.bd and urbanhealthfacilities.icddrb.org) having same contains of whole map of the health facilities in Dhaka city which anybody can browse and search for doctors, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and other facilities. Additional director general (planning and development) Dr Abul Kalam Azad, executive director of icddr,b Dr John Clemens, deputy director Dr Abbas Bhuiyan and senior
social scientist Dr Alayne M Adams also spoke on the occasion.
Annisul Huq appreciated the icddr,b move and urged them to link it with city corporation website.
He said, the DNCC has initiated a move to establish a central control centre to monitor traffic, healthcare, cleaning and road management through digital systems.
The icddr,b study, titled ‘Mapping the Urban Health Services Landscape in Dhaka City’, revealed that the city have 1,800 doctors’ chambers, and over 3,000 doctors’ chambers attached to pharmacies. There are 5,000 pharmacies throughout the city.
The study said there is a higher concentration for health workforce in Dhaka city than anywhere else in the country. Its analysis showed that dramatic geographical inequalities exist in the distribution of doctors with respect to population, especially in case of the poor and the disadvantaged.
Primary healthcare services are mostly delivered at doctors’ chambers and NGO facilities closer to the community. But unfortunately, not all the NGO facilities are open after hours when it is more convenient for the working population to seek healthcare.
