LAMB Hospital is a 150 bed general hospital

General hospital

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 located in Dinajpur District of Bangladesh

Bangladesh

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. The hospital was opened in 1983 and since then it is providing health care

Health care

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 for the neighboring community especially the poor. LAMB Hospital is run by Lutheran Aid to Medicine in Bangladesh, an NGO of the American Santal Mission in Dinajpur. The hospital also established a low-cost telemedicine

Telemedicine

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 system with the help of The Swinfen Charitable Trust apart from diagnostic, general health care & acute care

Acute care

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services.