Noor Hospital
49, Mohammed Ali Rd, near Masjid Bunder, Nakhuda Mohalla, Pydhonie, Mandvi, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400003, India
Noor Hospital, located on the western bank of the Buriganga River in Old Dhaka’s Lalbagh area, is a 200-bed secondary-care facility founded in 1983 by the Noor-E-Alam Welfare Trust. Set inside a pale-yellow, six-storey reinforced-concrete building with a recently added glass-fronted annex, the hospital integrates outpatient, inpatient, and 24-hour emergency services into just 48,000 sq ft—space that has been reorganized twice to comply with modern fire-safety and IPC (infection-prevention-control) norms.
The entry atrium doubles as a triage hub: wooden benches line one wall, biometric kiosks stand opposite, and an overhead LED strip anxiously ticks down both prayer and queue numbers. Beyond security a central corridor branches left to the outpatient zone—twenty-two consultation chambers split between general medicine, obstetrics-gynecology, pediatrics, cardiology, endocrinology, dentistry, and ENT. Morning shifts run 8 a.m.–2 p.m.; afternoon specialty clinics—orthopedics, nephrology, urology, dermatology—operate until 6 p.m. Diagnostic support sits one floor up: Siemens 16-slice CT, 500 mA X-ray, Olympus HD endoscopy suite, fully automated biochemistry analyzers capable of processing 300 tests/hour, and a three-unit hemodialysis bay that runs six days a week (56 sessions/day). Cardiac services extend to 2-D echo, color Doppler, stress-testing and a four-bed CCU ventilated on a laminar-air cycle.
Inpatient wings occupy floors 3-5. Forty private AC rooms and sixty semi-private cubicles flank a bright central nurses’ station built circular to cut walking distance. Six operating theatres—three elective and three emergency—use LED shadow-less lights, modular walls with anti-bacterial coating, centralized medical-gas systems, and a pass-through sterilization window linked to CSSD (central sterile supply dept.) on the mezzanine. Laparoscopic stacks, harmonic scalpels and C-arm fluoro enable routine and advanced procedures from cholecystectomy to total-knee arthroplasty. Two labour-delivery-recovery rooms with fetal heart monitors and a six-bed NICU (level-II) serve one of Dhaka’s busiest perinatal catchment zones (≈1,200 live births/year). An HDU with five ventilators and round-the-clock intensivist support backs both poly-trauma and post-operative cases picked up from the adjacent 11-vehicle ambulance fleet.
The newest annex houses oncology daycare—an eight-chair chemotherapy bay shielded with lead lining and HEPA filtration. Palliative-care counselling rooms and a trust-run charity desk sit opposite, managing zakat funds that subsidize ~15% of total admissions. Patient feeding, linen exchange, and biomedical waste streams have separate lifts to minimize cross-traffic; temperature-controlled pharma vaults with 72-hour generator backup satisfy Joint Commission International storage standards.
Human capital: 12 full-time consultants, 18 associate specialists, 38 junior doctors, 93 nurses, 26 paramedics, and 87 ancillary staff. Continuous medical education (CME) takes place every Thursday evening in the 50-seat audiovisual seminar room; collaborations with Dhaka Medical College Hospital provide quarterly workshops on ultrasonography and trauma life-support. IT backbone includes a HIMSS stage-5 EMR, WhatsApp appointment link, and QR-code payment at discharge counters.
USP of Noor Hospital is its 40-year grassroots legacy: emergency doors never close, 24-hour onsite imam offers spiritual counsel, and an in-house kitchen dishes out subsidized biryani for caretakers. The trust also sponsors a twice-weekly free diabetes and hypertension camp right at the gate, turning the hospital into more than its brick appendages—a living neighborhood landmark wrapped in white coats, mosque lights, and the steady clang of a 7-bed ventilator corridor guarding 2 million Old Dhaka hearts.
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- Published: August 23, 2025
