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Emergencyবাংলা

Sources and attribution

What this directory is built from, with thanks.

Government and open data

  • Health Facility Registry, Directorate General of Health Services (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare): names, Bangla names, locations and licence details of hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres.
  • OpenStreetMap: locations of some facilities and pharmacies. © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL).
  • Administrative boundaries: OCHA/BBS (CC BY-IGO), bangladesh-geocode (MIT) and bangladesh-geojson (ODbL).

Public doctor directories and hospital websites

Chamber and visiting-hour information comes from public Bangladeshi doctor directories and hospitals’ own websites. We take facts only, never text or photos, and each chamber shows how many sources confirm it.

Helplines

Emergency and helpline numbers come from the operating agencies’ own publications and are checked regularly.