Bangladesh Health Facilities

introduction

Health facilities provide healthcare services to people in Bangladesh.
They include hospitals, clinics, and community health centers.
Both government and private sectors run health facilities.
Health facilities help improve public health and reduce disease.

Methodology

Data were collected from government reports and health surveys.
Information was taken from both urban and rural health facilities.
Secondary data sources like DGHS and WHO were used.
Data were analyzed using simple comparison methods.

Result

Government health facilities are more common in rural areas
Private facilities are mainly located in urban areas.

# Google Drive file ID
id <- "1icDRT8jQ86A7Ya_5-n5vIuHapiqsjHYu"
# Download & unzip
zip <- tempfile(fileext = ".zip")
dir <- tempdir()
download.file(sprintf("https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=%s", id), zip, mode = "wb")
unzip(zip, exdir = dir)
# Read shapefile
shp <- list.files(dir, "hotosm_bgd_health_facilities_points_shp\\.shp$", 
            full.names = TRUE, recursive = TRUE)
health_facilities <- st_read(shp[1])

## Reading layer `hotosm_bgd_health_facilities_points_shp' from data source 
##   `C:\Users\DELL 3190\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpElNnB9\hotosm_bgd_health_facilities_points_shp.shp' 
##   using driver `ESRI Shapefile'
## Simple feature collection with 6929 features and 14 fields
## Geometry type: POINT
## Dimension:     XY
## Bounding box:  xmin: 88.10011 ymin: 20.63178 xmax: 92.58573 ymax: 26.41615
## Geodetic CRS:  WGS 84

names(health_facilities)

##  [1] "name"       "name_en"    "amenity"    "building"   "healthcare"
##  [6] "healthca_1" "operator_t" "capacity_p" "addr_full"  "addr_city" 
## [11] "source"     "name_bn"    "osm_id"     "osm_type"   "geometry"

There is a shortage of doctors and nurses in rural facilities.

## Simple feature collection with 6 features and 14 fields
## Geometry type: POINT
## Dimension:     XY
## Bounding box:  xmin: 89.99964 ymin: 22.32273 xmax: 91.83414 ymax: 24.72241
## Geodetic CRS:  WGS 84
##                                        name name_en  amenity building
## 1                                      <NA>    <NA> hospital     <NA>
## 2                 Kashipur Community Clinic    <NA>   clinic     <NA>
## 3       Centre Point Hospital (Pvt) Limited    <NA> hospital     <NA>
## 4 Ad-Din Women's Medical college & Hospital    <NA> hospital     <NA>
## 5      Health Care Medical Centre, Hospital    <NA> hospital     <NA>
## 6           Shapla Medical Center, Hospital    <NA> hospital     <NA>
##   healthcare healthca_1 operator_t capacity_p addr_full addr_city source
## 1       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>      <NA>      <NA>   <NA>
## 2       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>      <NA>      <NA> survey
## 3       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>      <NA>      <NA>   <NA>
## 4       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>      <NA>      <NA>   <NA>
## 5   hospital       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>      <NA>      <NA>   <NA>
## 6   hospital       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>      <NA>      <NA>   <NA>
##   name_bn      osm_id osm_type                  geometry
## 1    <NA>  4634235837    nodes POINT (91.80701 22.32273)
## 2    <NA>  6124500144    nodes POINT (91.21184 24.72241)
## 3    <NA>  9845671541    nodes POINT (91.83414 22.34366)
## 4    <NA>   871761335    nodes  POINT (90.40507 23.7485)
## 5    <NA> 12536073021    nodes POINT (89.99965 23.86726)
## 6    <NA> 12536085040    nodes POINT (89.99964 23.86734)

Access to health services is better in cities than villages.

Conclution

Health facilities play a vital role in Bangladesh’s health system.
Rural areas need more well-equipped health centers.
Proper distribution of health workers is necessary.
Strong health facilities can improve national health outcomes.