The demand for top-notch healthcare facilities has been on the rise. As the generation of baby boomers continues to age, they are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases. In addition, unhealthy lifestyle choices and eating habits are further increasing the number of patients suffering from chronic ailments.
Patients have also become extremely cautious of fraudulent healthcare schemes. Thus, it has become crucial to building great hospitals that offer high-quality healthcare services at affordable prices.
The best hospitals always prioritize the patient’s comfort and convenience at each stage of their journey. A good hospital should focus on making the patient’s experience as seamless as possible, right from appointment booking to discharge. It is crucial to provide patients with all the necessary information that will help them make their decision faster. Thus, it was very important to have a hospital that would cater to the patient’s needs in an effortless and affordable way.
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About United Hospital
United Hospital is one of the largest private-sector healthcare facilities in Bangladesh. It is a venture of the United Group. The hospital was launched in August 2006 and is situated beside the picturesque Gulshan Lake. With a capacity to house over 450 patients and established across a total covered area of over 400,000 sq ft, the hospital has 11 states of the art operation theatres to cater to the needs of a varied patient base. With their technology and experience, and with the help of their co-operative workforce, they aspire to be the number one healthcare provider not only in Bangladesh but in the Asia-Pacific region.
Departments
ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY: It is a 24-hour, full-time section and it offers the highest degree of commitment to delivering quality and efficient emergency care.
ANESTHESIOLOGY: The anesthesiologists on staff provide anaesthesia services for inpatient and outpatient surgery as well as for non-surgical diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
CARDIAC ANESTHESIA: Cardiac anaesthesia is subspecialty anesthesiology devoted to the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care of adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery and related invasive procedures.
CARDIAC SURGERY: This division comprises a cardiac surgery team of 11 cardiac surgeons and 4 cardiac operation theatres which are supported by a team of 10 cardiac anesthesiologists.
CARDIOLOGY: The cardiologists provide 24-hour dedicated service and it is the only hospital in Bangladesh where emergency angioplasty can be carried out round the clock. It is operated by a strong and dedicated team of cardiologists.
CLINICAL HEMATOLOGY: This department looks after people with problems in their blood. This includes leukaemia, some forms of anaemia (like Sickle Cell), and congenital (from birth) diseases like thalassemia and haemophilia.
CRITICAL CARE: Intensive care units cater to patients with severe and life-threatening illnesses & injuries, which require constant attention, close monitoring, and support from highly advanced and specialized equipment and medications in order to ensure and maintain normal bodily functions.
DENTISTRY: The Dental Centre has been set up with the aim to provide an international standard dental treatment facility to satisfy and meet the demands of our community.
DERMATOLOGY: The department aims to deliver the highest quality of care to patients with skin disorders, including skin cancers, immune and allergic processes diseases of other organ systems with skin manifestations and venereal diseases.
DIABETES & ENDOCRINOLOGY: This department provides state of the art medical care to individuals with endocrine disorders. Their skilled team of highly trained physicians, physician’s assistants, dietitians, and a diabetes specialist is dedicated to providing outstanding medical care.
DIETETICS & NUTRITION: This department consists of a team of dedicated and committed dieticians ensuring individual attention. Their services include nutrition assessment, planning, and prescription, following counselling for different diseased conditions.
ENT & HEAD NECK SURGERY: The team consists of experienced surgeons including anaesthetists who are available to provide you with the best possible service in Bangladesh. The team is committed to improving the quality of life of their patients.
FAMILY MEDICINE: Family Medicine doctors provide comprehensive, compassionate, and continuous care to patients and their family members.
GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY: is committed to the clinical care of patients with gastrointestinal and liver disorders.
GENERAL SURGERY: The department offers a wide range of comprehensive and high-quality surgical procedures. The department is well equipped with the latest technology and facilities and is manned by experienced surgeons, nurses, and technicians.
HAEMODIALYSIS– Routine Haemodialysis is conducted in a dialysis outpatient facility, which is a purpose-built dedicated area of the hospital. For those who are admitted, an in-patient dialysis facility is also available at the bedside.
HEALTH SCREENING: The outpatient department offers various tailor-made health screening packages designed to provide an overall comprehensive health check, detect potential problems, and suggest changes in lifestyle which may reduce the risk of serious illness.
INTERNAL MEDICINE: The department provides a wide range of high-quality cross-speciality health care services, including physical examinations, preventive screenings and immunizations, urgent care for medical conditions, and referrals to surgical specialists when appropriate.
LAB MEDICINE: The Laboratory Medicine department has become the leading diagnostic laboratory in Bangladesh due to its uniqueness in providing numerous tests, reliability, and prompt turnaround time.
NEONATOLOGY: This care unit deals with neonates or newborn babies who are suffering from life-threatening illnesses. Every critical patient is provided with specialized personal care on a 1:1 basis.
NEPHROLOGY (KIDNEY CENTRE): This division works closely with other professionals, including cardiologists, endocrinologists, pharmacists, nurses, and dieticians, to provide patients who suffer from kidney disorders with high-quality cost-effective treatment.
NEUROLOGY: The department of Neurology serves as the receiving centre for the most critically injured individuals from around the nation and treats patients from home and abroad with brain and spine diseases.
NEUROSURGERY: This department has highly trained neurosurgeons and neurologists and the most modern equipment and has established itself as the only hospital to provide comprehensive Neurosurgery facilities under one roof coupled with Neurology support.
NUCLEAR MEDICINE: The department of Nuclear Medicine is a huge team of highly specialized doctors, radiochemists, radio pharmacists, and physicists devoted to an extremely sensitive and advanced field of medicine.
OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY: With renowned, reliable, and trained doctors, the Mother and Child Care Centre provides highly specialized facilities to ensure both mother and baby are in safe hands.
ONCOLOGY: The most high-profile, diverse group of doctors run the Oncology Unit/Cancer treatment centre. Consultants, specialists, and duty doctors with a full team of nurses and other caregivers are thoroughly dedicated to providing comprehensive, advanced, highly skilled medical treatment, support, and care.
OPHTHALMOLOGY: The department provides both basic and specialized eye care services for patients. The trained and experienced consultants provide specialized treatment for a wide variety of eye problems.
ORTHOPEDICS: The team diagnoses, operates, and treats problems affecting the bones, joints, and muscles of patients encompassing all age groups.
PAEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY: Treatment of acute and chronic neurological and developmental conditions in children is provided by the Pediatric Neurology program.
PAEDIATRIC SURGERY: The pediatric surgery department provides specialized care for babies, children, and adolescents who may need surgery for a general surgical disorder.
PAEDIATRICS: In every stage of their development, paediatricians manage their patients’ physical, mental and emotional well-being to reduce infant mortality, control infectious diseases, and alleviate the difficulties of children and adolescents with chronic conditions.
PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION: This team is committed to helping people who are sick, wounded, or disabled to regain mobility and function to their full potential.
PLASTIC SURGERY: The plastic surgery department works to change or restore the shape of the body. Many procedures are done, such as reconstructive surgery, craniofacial surgery, hand surgery, microsurgery, and burn care.
PSYCHIATRY: UHL provides Psychiatry consultation on an OPD basis.
PSYCHOSOCIAL COUNSELING: In order to analyze the underlying problem, they provide psychotherapy (counselling) using different traditional psychological theories and provide support by psychotherapeutic techniques.
RADIOLOGY AND IMAGING: The department of Radiology & Imaging offers patients comprehensive services with highly advanced and sensitive bio-medical equipment.
RESPIRATORY MEDICINE: The respiratory medicine team is passionate about improving the lives of adults living with respiratory diseases by delivering first-class treatment of lung conditions.
THORACIC SURGERY: Thoracic surgery repairs diseased or injured organs and tissues in the thoracic cavity and deals specifically with disorders of the lungs and oesophagus.
TRAUMA SURGERY: The patients are evaluated according to a set of predetermined protocols (triage) designed to detect and treat life-threatening conditions as soon as possible. After such conditions have been addressed, non-life-threatening injuries are addressed.
UROLOGY: The Urology department is committed to providing state-of-the-art medical and surgical services for both male and female urology specialists (both adult and pediatric).
Covid Wing
After the world was hit by the deadly Covid-19 virus, hospitals and other healthcare systems had to adapt to the new normal by rapidly changing all the practices within the last 6 months. These changes have been applied to hospital visits, waiting rooms, telehealth, and homecare.
United Hospital has been the most efficient when it came to getting adapted to the new normal. Along with taking extra precautions to minimize the spread of the deadly virus, they also launched a Covid wing to treat the affected patients with utmost care. They have the most comprehensive and vast Covid-care facility in the country.
To provide the best possible service, they have the incorporative support of the best Pulmonologists, Internal Medicine, Nephrologists, Radiologists, Cardiologists, and others along with modern well-equipped treatment facilities who are available 24/7 to cater to the patients. The in-patient COVID treatment facility is completely isolated from the Non-Covid area and has around 40 adult ICU beds with ventilators available. The wing is equipped with 26 High Flow Nasal Cannulas. The wing itself has general wards and cabins which are separated for Covid suspected patients and Covid-positive in-patients. The critical care areas are monitored 24/7 by specialized doctors so that the patients can be taken care of at all times. They also carry out reliable Covid tests by RT PCR method for outside patients along with home sample collection, bulk sample collection & fast track service. Lastly, they have Covid Home Care packages for people who are positive but want to be treated at home. The patients are given all the appropriate medications and are under heavy surveillance at all times.
Telemedicine by United Hospital
Healthcare services are changing the way that patients are being treated gradually. Many patients are relying on telehealth, also known as telemedicine to be treated safely in their homes. Telehealth is the distribution of healthcare services and information through electronic devices and telecommunication technologies. This service makes healthcare more accessible to patients, increases the patient’s engagement, and is cost-effective. Telehealth is a convenient service for many patients and specialists due to the limitations of in-person hospital visits and the risk of being exposed to COVID-19 while in public places.
United Hospital has been one of the pioneers in introducing telemedicine consultation services in Bangladesh. They have a vast team of specialized doctors from all fields ready to cater to patients with real-time interactive services and they provide immediate advice to patients who are seeking medical attention through their phone or computer. Store and forward telemedicine is used for patients to send medical images or biosignals to the specialist. This type of telemedicine relies on the patient’s medical history, documented information, or images instead of an in-person physical exam. The doctors also monitor the remote patient’s health and clinical signs remotely through technological devices. This way they make sure every patient is dealt with the utmost attention even if they are behind a screen.
Some Other Exclusive Services
Along with numerous other facilities, United Hospital strives to be the best and they offer the most exclusive services to provide their patients with the best possible experience. Some of the noteworthy services are mentioned below:
Blood bank- They have an exclusive and registered blood bank and their aim is to provide their patients with the best possible blood which is equivalent to international standards. All necessary safety measures are taken for both the donors and the recipients including performing the mandatory screening tests for infectious diseases.
Chemotherapy Unit- As per international guidelines, the exclusive Chemotherapy Unit offers the most revised cancer management for the patients.
Dietician- A team of dedicated and devoted dieticians ensures that patients are personally cared for including dietary review, preparation, and medication, following therapy for various diseased conditions.
Home Sample Collection Service- The main objective is to deliver high-quality special healthcare service to the patients who are unable to go to the hospital personally to give blood/urine/stool samples for treatment or routine health checkup purposes They collect samples from all over Dhaka to ensure maximum comfort of their patients.
Stroke Centre- They have a 24-hour dedicated stroke team with neurologists, neurosurgeons, radiologists, emergency department, and other healthcare professionals who are able to diagnose and treat a stroke during the critical 3-4.5 hour window and provide treatment accordingly.
Vaccination- This department specializes in offering the most important vaccines to neonates, children & adults. Vaccines play a very vital role in ensuring the health status of the community and they also have a dedicated Vaccine Storage Unit.
United Hospital Doctors List
1. Doctors of ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY Department
Doctors Name
Academic Records
PROF. DR. MOHAMMAD OMAR FARUQ
MBBS, FCPS (Medicine), MD, American Board Certified in Internal Medicine & Emergency Medicine.
Chief Consultant, General Intensive Care Unit ( G-ICU) & Emergency
2. Doctors of ANESTHESIOLOGY Department
Doctors Name
Academic Records
DR. ASHIA ALI
MBBS, FCPS, Consultant.
DR. MUNSHI KALAMUR RAHMAN
MBBS, MD
PROF. DR. BRIG GEN (RTD) MD NAZMUL AHSAN
MBBS, FCPS
PROF. DR. MD SHAHIDULLAH
MBBS, MD
3. Doctors of CARDIAC ANESTHESIA Department
Doctors Name
Academic Records
DR. SHAHID AHMED CHOWDHURY
MBBS, DA, FCPS
4. Doctors of CARDIAC SURGERY Department
Doctors Name
Academic Records
DR. SAYEDUR RAHMAN KHAN
MBBS, MS (CV& TS)
DR. JAHANGIR KABIR
MBBS, MS (CTS)
DR. MAJ GEN MUNSHI MD MOJIBUR RAHMAN (RETD)
MBBS, FCPS, MCPS
DR. REZAUL HASSAN
MBBS, MS (CTS)
DR. MD. SHAKHAWAT HOSSAIN
MBBS, MS (CTS)
DR. SANJOY BISWAS
MBBS,MS (CTS),FCPS (CVS)
DR. S M ZAKIR KHALED
MBBS, MS(CTS)
5. Doctors of CARDIOLOGY Department
Doctors Name
Academic Records
DR. A. M. SHAFIQUE
MBBS, MD (Cardiology)
PROF. DR. AFZALUR RAHMAN
MBBS, MD (Cardiology), PhD (Cardiology)
DR. FATEMA BEGUM
MBBS, FCPS (Med), MD (Card)
DR. MD. HELAL UDDIN
MBBS, D-Card, MSC
DR. KAISAR NASRULLAH KHAN
MBBS, FCPS (Med), MD (Card)
DR. MD. MATIUR RAHMAN
MBBS, MD(Card), FCPS
DR. REAZUR RAHMAN
MBBS, DTM&H,D-Card
DR. N A M MOMENUZZAMAN
BBS, D-Card. MD (Card)
DR. REYAN ANIS
MBBS (DMC), MRCP (UK)
DR. REZOANA RIMA
MBBS, FCPS (Paediatrics)
DR. TUNAGGINA AFRIN KHAN
MBBS, MD
6. Doctors of CLINICAL HEMATOLOGY AND LAB MEDICINE Department
Doctors Name
Academic Records
PROF. DR. BRIG GEN (RETD). ZAHID MAHMUD
MBBS, FCPS
7. Doctors of COVID WING Department
Doctors Name
Academic Records
DR. AFSANA BEGUM
MBBS, FCPS (Med)
DR. AMINA SULTANA
MBBS, MD (critical care medicine)
DR. MD. IQBAL HOSSAIN
MBBS, MRCP (Ireland)
PROF. DR. MOHAMMAD OMAR FARUQ
MBBS, FCPS (Medicine), MD, American Board Certified in Internal Medicine & Emergency Medicine
DR. PRADIP R SAHA
MBBS, FCPS
DR. RAWSHAN ARRA KHANAM
MBBS, MD (Chest Diseases)
PROF. DR. TAIMOR NAWAZ
MBBS (Dhaka), MRCP(UK)
8. Doctors of CRITICAL CARE Department
Doctors Name
Academic Records
DR. AMINA SULTANA
MBBS, MD (critical care medicine)
PROF. DR. MOHAMMAD OMAR FARUQ
MBBS, FCPS (Medicine), MD, American Board Certified in Internal Medicine & Emergency Medicine
MBBS, FCPS (Surgery), FRCS (Glasgow), MS (surgery),Fellow Colorectal Surgery (Singapore)
42. Doctors of UROLOGY Department
Doctors Name
Academic Records
DR. M. A. ZULKIFL
MBBS, FCPS, FRCS
Conclusion
Overall, United Hospital has been completely dedicated to offer the best possible service to its patients from the time of its beginning. They have repeatedly proven that actions work better than words with their top-notch facilities and they continue to remain the best healthcare service in Bangladesh.
