Hospital Facilities
With modernized architectural design, KCH hospital is a complex five-storey building, situated in the village of Karamtola. Its various sections are such made that they are physically capable to offer a wide range of clinical services for patients. All buildings and facilities are in a landed area of 2.0 acres owned by PFB.
As a whole Karamtola Community Hospital is such positioned that it is well communicated by roads to Capital Dhaka as well as to Tongi, Gazipur, Narsingdi and surroundings for daily transfer of patients and their attendants.
KCH Hospital premises present lovely alluring site, with trees and herbs and gardens, offering a homely taste of its own for any category of patients – male or female, children, young or aged, local or distant.
Besides the hospital building, the premises contain a) a multi-storey Mission Centre having its own Chapel, Guest House, Nursing Training Centre, a Primary level English version School, etc, b) Nursing students hostels, c) some staff residences and d) a few utility wings.
The whole hospital area including all departments is under full time CCTV camera surveillance and also additionally secured by hospital’s own security guards.
Site map
Clinical Services of Karamtola Community Hospital
Karamtola Community Hospital regularly provides the following services
A. Karamtola General Hospital
Service | Frequency | Details |
Outpatient Department | Every Working day | · General Medicine · General Surgery · Obs And Gynae · Orthopedic · ENT · Pediatrics · Dental |
MCH services | Every Working day | · ANC & PNC, · Normal delivery · Various Obs and Gynae Surgeries · Caesarean Section operation · Family planning · Vaccination |
Emergency Services | 24 Hours and 7 days a week | · All emergency case management |
Diagnostic Services | 24 Hours and 7 days a week | · Pathological Tests · Digital X-Ray · ECG · Ultrasonograms |
Indoor Service | 24 Hours and 7 days a week | · Patient Admission · Nursing care · Doctor’s support · Critical case management |
OT Service | 24 Hours and 7 days a week | · Minor and major operations · General Surgeries · Gynae & Obs Surgeries · Orthopedic · ENT operations · Laparoscopic Surgeries |
Dental Procedures | Every Working day | · Scaling and filling · RCT · Denture and capping · Surgical procedure |
Physiotherapy | Every Working day | · Shortwave and ultrasound and Interferential therapy · Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation · Infra-red radiation and Vibrator massage · Lumber/cervical traction, Paraffin Wax bath |
Pharmacy | 24 Hours and 7 days a week | · Sale of all drugs |
EPI Vaccinations | Every Wednesday and Saturday | · Providing EPI vaccines as per GIB rules |
Others | 24 Hours and 7 days a week | · Day Care · Breast feeding support · Health Education · Counseling · Referral support |
B. Karamtola Eye Service Project (KESP)
Service | Frequency | Details |
Outpatient Department | Every Working day | · Eye patient examination · Consultation for eye disease · Drugs |
Various Eye Related Tests | Every Working day | · Sac patency tests · Biometry · Auto refraction · Tonometry |
Cataract Surgeries | Every Working day | · SICS Surgeries · Phaco Surgeries |
Other Eye Operations | Every Working day | · Chalazion · DCT · DCR with Intubations · Lachrymal Sac Abscess Incision · Pterygium with Grafting |
Others | Every Working day | · Health Education · Counseling · Referral support |
Downstairs : The Out Patient and Diagnostic Department
The Karamtola Community Hospital’s ground floor is the main work area. It is for daily visit of patients and their attendants that constitute some 500 to 600 everyday. It is rather a busy area almost every day. The ground floor accommodates the main outpatient service points and diagnostic area. All hospital rooms are numbered as well as vividly marked.
You may find the following areas in downstairs and may additionally take the help of the site map if needed. [Check site map]
Reception and Information Desk
For the newcomers this is the first place to hop in, to ask for any information they require related with doctor’s treatment, hospital services, various tests, admissions and operations of Karamtola Community Hospital. It is open all through the day. The receptionist is well-groomed and ready to welcome you with a smile of the face.
Registration Counters
Six glass-paneled patient registration counters stand side by side just beside the Information Desk. They remain busy from morning till the end of the day to complete the registration formalities for all new and revisit patients. All fees and charges related with the services of Karamtola Community Hospital are received here. The hospital patients’ information and services are maintained through hospital’s own software.
Registration Counters
Six glass-paneled patient registration counters stand side by side just beside the Information Desk. They remain busy from morning till the end of the day to complete the registration formalities for all new and revisit patients. All fees and charges related with the services of Karamtola Community Hospital are received here. [You can check KCH rate chart- Insert link]. The hospital patients’ information and services are maintained through hospital’s own software.
Patient Waiting Area
The main patient waiting area is in the downstairs, just beside the registration counters. But various hospital sections additionally maintain patients’ waiting facilities. For patients’ entertainments, televisions are fitted here; various informative leaflets and newspapers and magazines are available here too. Various information sheets are available here too. Patients’ guides and counselors are positioned in the waiting area for additional helps. Often loud speakers are used use to guide the patients.
Doctor's Consultation Rooms
From waiting areas patients are easily channeled to the doctors’ consultation rooms. There are 10 such doctors’ consultation rooms. The out patient clinical services start at 8-30 am and continues till 4-00 pm on all working days. The outpatient department handle general medicine, general surgery, Gynae and OBS, othro, pediatric, ENT and other patients. Nurses are stationed before each consultation room for helping in initial checkup and providing additional help.
Doctor's Consultation Rooms
From waiting areas patients are easily channeled to the doctors’ consultation rooms. There are 10 such doctors’ consultation rooms. The out patient clinical services start at 8-30 am and continues till 4-00 pm on all working days. The outpatient department handle general medicine, general surgery, Gynae and OBS, othro, pediatric, ENT and other patients. Nurses are stationed before each consultation room for helping in initial checkup and providing additional help.
Emergency Department
In the hospital first floor there is the Emergency Department remaining open to support patients with any critical and emergency problems. Doctor and nurses with other clinical facilities are available here for 24 hours.
Clinical Laboratory
The clinical laboratory is a big work place, remaining busy almost all day, where more than 400 tests are daily undertaken. It is situated downstairs, with separate sample collection rooms. This lab is equipped with modern instruments and apparatus. It is capable to perform all pathological tests including hormone tests, histopathology and Culture and Sensitivity 24 hours a day.
Clinical Laboratory
The clinical laboratory is a big work place, remaining busy almost all day, where more than 400 tests are daily undertaken. It is situated downstairs, with separate sample collection rooms. This lab is equipped with modern instruments and apparatus. It is capable to perform all pathological tests including hormone tests, histopathology and Culture and Sensitivity 24 hours a day.
X-Ray
Situated in downstairs close to the Clinical Laboratory, the X-ray room is technically fitted with twin digital x-ray machines that handle about 150 X-rays of various categories per day. X-Ray room is made radiation-preventable as per required standard.
Ultrasonogram and ECG
There are three rooms for doing colored ultasonography for patients of Karamtola Community Hospital. A number of competent sonologist doctors are available all time of the day. There is also a separate room with six channel machine for doing ECG
Pharmacy
Karamtola Community Hospital maintains a hospital pharmacy in the downstairs close to the patient waiting area. The pharmacy is open day and night. It has got most medicines prescribed and needed by patients. It is open for outsiders too.
Normal Delivery, Dressing and Day-Care Sections and Others
In the downstairs of Karamtola Community Hospital, there are, in addition to above, normal delivery section, dressing section, day care room, breast feeding room and physiotherapy room too.
First Floor : Surgery and Eye and Dental Services
Karamtola Operation Theatre Complex
The operation theatre complex of Karamtola Community Hospital (KCH) is one very important section and situated in the first floor. It has four separate OT rooms. All types of General, Orthopedic, ENT and Gynae surgeries are being regularly done here, both under GA and regional block. Moreover, laparoscopic surgeries are also being regularly done here. Each month 200~225 operations are being done regularly. It has pre-operative and post-operative areas as well as sterilization sections.
In Karamtola OT Complex there is separate ophthalmologic Operation Theatre that is capable to handle 150~200 eye surgeries every month, which include all type of major and minor eye surgeries, including Phaco surgeries for cataract.
Karamtola Eye Service Project (KESP)
One of the important sections of Karamtola Community Hospital is its ongoing and vibrant eye care services. It is accommodated in first floor of the hospital building. It is like a total independent unit as it includes, in addition to patient registration and waiting area, various eye testing rooms, doctor consultation room, counseling room, etc.
Karamtola Eye Service Project (KESP)
One of the important sections of Karamtola Community Hospital is its ongoing and vibrant eye care services. It is accommodated in first floor of the hospital building. It is like a total independent unit as it includes, in addition to patient registration and waiting area, various eye testing rooms, doctor consultation room, counseling room, etc.
Dental Treatment Room
The dental department is located in 1st floor. This department is fitted with all equipments needed in modern dentistry.
Second Floor : Inpatient Departments
The second floor of Karamtola Community Hospital (KCH) as a whole is for inpatient department. It has two female and one male general ward, 3Non-AC and 8 AC room, out of which 4 has VIP facilities. Besides, there are nursing station and treatment room.
Third Floor : Administrative Block
The third floor of Karamtola Community Hospital (KCH) is for purpose of administrative work. Besides a number of offices, it has got the general store.
Fourth Floor : Training and Meeting Block
In Karamtola Community Hospital (KCH) the fourth floor is for nursing trainings and other trainings.
Community Health Program
Since 1992, CHDP-K Community Health Program has been being operated in Pubail Union. These villages surround Karamtola Community Hospital [CHDP-K base clinic]. The total population under community health activities is 45,878 (as of 2022). And four dedicated community nurses (workers) are constantly working in this program.
Community Development Program offers a wide range of services that included the followings:
- Maternal and newborn service: This component of services aims at reducing maternal and new born morbidity and mortality due to complications of pregnancy. The main activities under it are field home visits of pregnant mothers and thus provide them counseling, health education, vitamins, irons, calcium and tetanus vaccination and encourage them for antenatal check-up as per WHO guidelines regularly. The objective of this is for the pregnant women to have safe pregnancy, normal delivery and healthy baby.
- Tuberculosis program: With an aim to reduce TB, the CHDP-K community field workers, during field visits, look for presumptive and suspected TB cases and refer them to the government facilities for further investigations and treatment.
- EPI Vaccination: Under this component of services, EPI vaccination is provided by the community health workers two days a week.
Karamtola Nursing School (KNS)
The education for nursing students at Karamtola started as Community Junior Nursing School In 2007. The purpose of Nursing School has been to help poor underprivileged young girls from the communities and develop them into health work forces as aide nurses in order that they could widely participate in health care service delivery for the communities as well as they lessen the burden on their families. Karamtola Nursing School (KNS) is a continuing project for Presbyterian Fellowship in Bangladesh (PFB).
Karamtola Nursing School (KNS) is situated within the premises of Karamtola Hospital. This is a residential nursing institute too with independent learning facilities. The nursing course operated here is 3 years long, and though not yet accredited by BNMC, the course is crafted incorporating basics of nursing, clinical education and patient care. The nurses and doctors of CHDP-K General Hospital work as teachers in Karamtola Community Junior Nursing School (KNS). The students enrolled in KNS get opportunity for their practical orientation with the patients in CHDP-K General Hospital work too. The students also have opportunity, after passing their final examination, to work and learn as interns in CHDP-K Hospital.
In 2022 in July twelve new students joined the course. The students are Bengali 2, Bam Tribe 3, Shantal 4, Garo 1, Marma 1 and Rakhine 1. The students mostly represent the minority and ethnic groups of the country and some students happened to hear the gospel for the first time as they were here. Seven students continued their nursing studies in Karamtola Nursing School (KNS) in 2022 and in last June they graduated the 3rd grade, though with difficulty, due to impacts of the corona time. All of them are now taking an internship at CHDP-K Hospital, where two are working in hospital OT whereas others in hospital wards, outpatient clinic and Samsung Clinic. They proved responsible enough to fulfill their roles diligently.
The Presbyterian Fellowship in Bangladesh earnestly hopes that through Karamtola Junior Nursing School, the young girls will profoundly grow in interest in the gospel as they become resilient and self-dependent woman and undertake the roles as nurses with strong self-esteem in all situations.
