ABOUT HOSPITAL Chattagram Maa-O-Shishu Hospital Medical College
The parent organization started its journey in the year 1979 as Chattogram Shishu Hospital. This was a humble beginning, which gathered momentum with the commitment and sincere efforts of people from all walks of life. A group of social workers of Chittagong started the hospital in an unfinished dilapidated government building in Agrabad with permission of the Ministry of Health and family welfare.The small out patient’s services with one part time honorary medical officer on deputation from Chittagong medical college & three honorary paediatric consultant. The whole of the two storied building were later given to the organization step by step (each floor containing a floor space of 91,000 sqft). Shishu Hospital was completed 1988 and maternity services were added to the hospital in 1994 with a capacity of 150 beds. At this time the Hospital was named as “Chattogram Maa-O- Shishu Hospital”.
At present it is a 650-bedded hospital, which includes Paediatrics Medicine, Neonatology, Pediatric Surgery, General surgery, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Medicine & it's sub-specialists. The outpatient services is extended to consultancy, pharmacy, family planning, mother care, EPI (expended programmed for immunization) and Physical Medicine all types of pediatric care. The other services include medicine surgery, Orthopedics Surgery, ENT, ophthalmology, dentistry, Dermatology, Psychiatry and a highly specialized Child Development Clinic for retarded and handicapped children and adult medicine. The average attendance in the OPD is 400-500 patients daily. Besides the emergency medical services are open round the clock for urgent and semi-urgent.
There is a full-fledged Radiology Department with all types of X-ray facilities and Ultrasonography (2D & 3D with Colordopler). Our Clinical Pathology Department is well equipped, along with Hematology, Biochemistry and Microbiology. There is a modest Blood Transfusion Center, which renders services round-the-clock.
MISSION AND VISION:-
Our mission is to attain International standard of health care service in Maternal and Child Health care along with state of the art services in all other departments, which includes surgery, medicine, Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, ENT, Dermatology, STD, Psychiatry, and all other sub specialties. Our vision is to convert the area into a world class Medical Village with International standard teaching, learning research and service in the disciplines of both preventive and curative medicine.
MANAGEMENT:-
There are at present about 9053 Life Members of the hospital who elect a committee of 20 members every 3 years to run the hospital, there is also an elected governing body to look after the affairs of the medical college The committee is then sub grouped to manage the various functions of the hospital. The policies and the decisions of the various committees are implemented through the officers and other staff of the hospital.
SERVICES AND FUND:-
The main aims and objectives of this organization is to provide health care services especially to the downtrodden masses of the society. Free services are provided to the poorest community of the society and a very nominal fee is charged from patients who can afford to pay. There are also well-furnished cabins with all modern facilities for the affluent class of the society. The source of funding of this organization is the income generated from its various services, donations from various National & International organizations. There is also a Zakat fund to receive Zakat every year from rich Muslim families The management is also indebted to many highly qualified & experienced doctors and other staffs, from home and abroad for the honorary services rendered to this charitable organization for humanitarian cause.
