An establishment or instion provides medical and surgical treatment and nursing care for mentally retarded,sick or injured person.Mental health service in Bangladesh in poorly developed and most the develo ping countries of the world.pabna mental hospital is the frist and the only mental hospital in Bangladesh for a population of about 130 million it was established in 1957 by the chivil surgeon of pabna disthick in a local lan dlords house..In 1959 it was shifted to Hemayetpur, about 8km from the district town, in an area of 111.25 acres of land.Initially the number of beds was 60 and subsequently was increased to 200. Later in 1966 another 200 beds were added.Out of the total beds, 280 are non-paying and120 are paying beds.There are 18 wards in the hospital- 13 (11 non-paying and 2 paying) for male patients and 5 (4 non-paying and 1 paying) for female patients.Currently efforts are being made to add another 100 beds.
The hospital provides services to the patients coming from all over the country .there are separate department take decision whether to admit a patient in the hospital not .generally above 60 years are not admitted in the hospital.According to the WHO's global estimate of mental patients, Bangladesh with a population of about 130 million in 1998 had about 1.2 million severe mental patients and about 12.0 million mild mental patients.Recently, the National Mental Health Institute has been established in Dhaka that started functioning in 2000. All the Government Medical College Hospitals and the Combined Military Hospitals (CMH), and few private clinics have psychiatric wards.Narayanganj General Hospital and few private clinics have also wards for mental patients.
