Mapping Health Facilities

in 5 City Corporations
A Compendium
Preface

supported by
This compendium of maps and information on the composition and distribution of health facilities in urban Bangladesh
has been prepared by the Urban Health Group of the Centre for Equity & Health Systems, icddr,b. Led by Prof. Alayne
Adams, and supported by DFID-UK and GIZ, the preparation of these maps and associated data involved a
multi-disciplinary team of public health researchers, GIS experts, and computer programmers. All public, NGO, and
privately owned and managed facilities, inclusive of informal or non-medically trained providers, displaying visible
signage indicating their services, were identified by the urban mapping field team. GPS coordinates of each facility
were recorded and located on updated road networks, and basic facility data gathered according to WHO’s guidance on
the creation of a Master Facility List. These reported data were solicited from person/persons deemed most able or
knowledgeable about the facility. Several visits were sometimes necessary to access an appropriate respondent.

This compendium summarizes maps and facility information gathered to produce the Urban Health Atlas, an interactive
tool that has been developed to assemble, display and query health facility data in a visual fashion. The purpose of the
compendium is to provide a quick reference and introduction to this rich set of data useful to policy makers, health
planners, and researchers.

In this compendium, we are pleased to provide the first ever comprehensive assessment of the number, type, location
and distribution of health facilities in the major city corporations of Dhaka (North and South), Khulna, Sylhet, Rajshahi,
and Narayanganj City Corporations. Mapping work is also being undertaken in Chittagong City Corporation, and will be
published shortly as an addendum to the compendium.
prepared by
icddr,b is thankful to the Governments of Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Sweden, and the UK for their ongoing support.
Definitions of facility types A facility specializing in blood collection, preservation and sometimes transfusion
services. Clinical services are not provided in this facility.

Any formal institution providing A static or satellite facility that A facility providing ANC and PNC services and normal
both outdoor and indoor services serves only specific groups of deliveries assisted by trained birth attendants or midwives.
with more than 30 beds. people such as sex workers, These facilities are run by the NGOs like BRAC and Caritas,
intravenous drug users, street and are intended for poor urban women.
children. Services are largely Blood
focused on health education, with Bank
clinical care available only 1 or 2 A facility that sells
days a week. drugs as its
Hospital primary service.

Drop in Centre Delivery

(DIC) Centre Pharmacy
(DC)

EPI centre A private medical practice that is not

Any formal affiliated with a large institute like
institution, with or
Clinic
hospital or clinic and may or may not be
without indoor attached to a pharmacy.
services, with less
than or equal to 30 A facility that specializes in
Diagnostic immunization services for
beds
Centre children under the Satellite
Government’s Expanded Doctor
Program of Immunization.
clinic
Chamber
A facility that specializes in
medical testing and imaging
A clinic that provides a basic range of services at the community level during
services; some out-patient services
limited hours and days in a week. Most satellite clinics are run by NGOs in
may be provided.
non-purpose built locations that may change.
5 CITY CORPORATIONS

Dhaka (North & South)

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SYLHET

Khulna
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DHAKA RAJSHAHI
City
Narayanganj
Corporations
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Rajshahi
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KHULNA
NARAYANGANJ

Sylhet
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5 CITY CORPORATIONS

DHAKA KHULNA NARAYANGANJ RAJSHAHI SYLHET

distribution of health care facilities in Dhaka

NCC 0.9% 4.6% 94.5%

Public NGO Private

SCC 1.0% 8.0% 91.0%

Public NGO Private