Holy Family Red Crescent
Medical College
Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College was established in
the academic year 1999-2000 to meet the national need of qualified medical
graduates in the country.
Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College is a project of
Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) and is run by a Governing Body duly
formed by the representatives of sponsor organization Bangladesh Red Crescent
Society (BDRCS), representatives from the University of Dhaka and Government of
Bangladesh.
The College and Hospital has it’s own land of 08.10 Acros.
The constriction of the New Modern 06 storied Academic Building covering an enormous area of
380,000 Three lac Eight thousand square feet with all modern amenities
is already completed and academic activities has been started meantime.
This new campus has it’s own administrative with the
accommodation of Chairman, Governing body, Principal, Vice-Principal,
conference room, General Administration, Accounts section and students affairs
room well furnished teacher’s lounge and students zone located in the ground
floor. We have 07 lecture halls with multimedia and audio-visual facilities.
There are 120 tutorial rooms, in different floors. Dissection halls, spacious
laboratories, well resourced museums are placed in this establishment.
In different floors there is a separated teachers zone with
Adequate numbers of teachers room. We have an auditorium with accommodation of
500 person in the ground floor and spacious car parking at the basement of this
building.
The College follows the MBBS course curriculum as laid down
by Dhaka University and Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council. Government of
Bangladesh regulates the criteria of qualification of students and the
University of Dhaka conducts the professional examinations and certificates of
MBBS degree are awarded by them.
It started its journey with 50 students in the academic year
1999-2000. Presently we have about 827 students and 145 students are admitted
during every academic session including up to a maximum of 45% foreign
students. Nineteen batches of students have already qualified as doctors and
fourteen batches have completed their internship training and the fifteenth
batches are undergoing internship training in Holy Family Red Crescent Medical
College Hospital (HFRCMCH) which is a tertiary care Hospital established in the
year 1953 with 750 beds and delivering clinical services in all specialties of
medical science.
The Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College and Hospital is
located in a quiet and serene environment at the heart of Dhaka city at 1,
Eskaton Garden Road, Dhaka-1000 on 8.10 acres of land. The construction of the
new modern six storied academic building covering an enormous area of one lac
twenty three thousand square feet with all modern amenities is already
completed and academic activities have started in the mean time at all the
levels.
Since its establishment in the year 2000, Holy Family Red
Crescent Medical College has come a long way during the last 19 years and
achieved a great reputation amongst the non-government medical colleges in the
country. We admit students with high merit and aptitude. We have adequate
qualified teaching staff and modern teaching aids like computers, multimedia
projector and digital sound system for effective delivery of lectures. This
medical college has a full fledged library with sufficient text, reference
books and journals. The library has high speed internet facilities with HINARI
access. Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College is enlisted in the AVICENNA
Directory (former WHO medical directory). This college is also enlisted with
FAIMER International Medical Education Directory-IMED. American Medical Council
recently recognized MBBS Course completed from our Medical College. MRCP Part-I
Orientation Course has been started in our Medical College in the mean time.
Our College is also a centre for FCPS Part-II Examination. We have an
international standard bi annually published scientific publication, named
Journal of Medical Science and Research which, is fully accredited with
Bangladesh Medical & Dental Council. Our vision is to lead this institution
into a Centre of Excellence for medical education, training and service.
Holy Family Hospital
(HFH) was established in 1953. It is located at 1, Eskaton Garden Road, Ramna,
Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. It was renamed as Holy Family Red Cross Hospital in
1971. It was again renamed as Holy Family Red Crescent Hospital in 1984.
Finally in the year 2000 it was named as Holy Family Red Crescent Medical
College Hospital (HFRCMCH). It is a modern hospital with 750 bed, Free bed 75
& Bed Occupancy 70%. The hospital is run by Professors, Consultants,
Medical Officer and auxiliary staffs. There is a Holy Family Nursing College
attached to the hospital. The medical services include the department of
Emergency having 24 hours service with observation facilities, Medicine,
Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Cardiology, Nephrology with modern
dialysis facility, Neuromedicine, ICU, NICU, Endocrinology with outdoor
diabetic centre, Gastroenterology with Endoscopy, Psychiatry, Paediatrics &
Neonatology, Paediatric Surgery, Eye, E.N.T, Neurosurgery, Urology,
Orthopaedics, Physiotherapy, Dentistry, Radiology & imaging including CT
scan & MRI, Ultrasonography, Radiotherapy, Pathology and Oncology etc.
Holy Family Red
Crescent Medical College Hospital has a well equipped Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
& Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with latest equipments, skilled and
well-trained staff. On the 2nd floor 5 new Operation Theaters (OT) are now in
full operation in addition to 2 OTs in the ground floor. The new OTs are
equipped with latest equipments including a modern image intensifier with C Arm
and an advanced operating microscope. The outdoor is equipped with central AC
for the comfort of the patients. A specialized Clinic, Name of Holy Family
Specialized Clinic (Open for all) will be operational very soon.
The Outpatient
Department having facilities with consultancy service remains open for morning
and evening shifts. The charges are very competitive for the affluent people
while every poor patient have access to treatment free or at a minimum cost.
The hospital has several contractual agreements with different agencies,
organizations for treatment of their employees.
This hospital has a
good system for fire control, central announcement system exit channels. We
ensure electricity by own generator system. For effective communication
with the on call doctors' sufficient mobile phones have been provided to the
duty doctors. It also has a computerized central register for the patients to
find them out quickly. The hospital has low cost (20 taka) out patient
services for the poor patients on every working day.
