Zia Heart Foundation Hospital & Research Institute is a non-government, non-profit-earning, voluntary organization. A nucleus of excellence for the prevention & treatment of heart diseases in Dinajpur, a underdeveloped northern district of Bangladesh. In view of the utmost need of creating facilities for prevention and specialized medical treatment of innumerable people suffering from heart diseases in Dinajpur and adjacent regions; the then Member of the Parliament & Minister Khurshid Jahan Haque, in collaboration with social workers, doctors and benevolent persons, established the Zia Heart Foundation in Dinajpur, Bangladesh in 1992. The organization has been registered to the Department of Social Services, bearing No. 958/94 dated: 27-12-1994, under the provision of voluntary Social Welfare Agencies (Registration and Control) ordinance, 1961. Since then this organization has been working for the treatment and welfare of the patients of cardiovascular diseases of the Dinajpur region and adjacent districts with a limited resource. This hospital is sustainable by its earnings from fees of different services. In the beginning this hospital was confined to primary medicare and research activities in a small building. Efficient service facilities created an increasing demand because of hi-tech specialized treatment services is available at the doorstep and at a reasonable cost. The patients of this region especially the poor are doubly benefited. It is on this basis and patients’ need Zia Heart Foundation, Dinajpur, initiated and implemented a project “100 beded Zia Heart Foundation Hospital & Research Instituted” phase-I (50 beds), in collabotion with the Ministry of Social Welfare and the Department of Social Services, Bangladesh, at a cost 362.55 million taka in the year 2006. In 2011 Institute of Nursing Science Dinajpur – a subsidiary Institute of Zia Heart Foundation has been established. This Institute provides Diploma in Cardiac Nursing and Diploma in Nursing Science and Midwifery are recognized by the Bangladesh Nursing Council. The trained manpower from this Institution shall complement hospitals and health services. The programs of this project are related to the national plan and social sectored objectives/targets. It provides specialized Medicare for heart diseases and its complication and thus helping the sufferers to regain normal health for normal and productive living. It help the poor patients to get at free/discounted/reasonable cost Medicare services and it also help create mass awareness for prevention of heart diseases. This project is also complementing in public health services to help achieve national health goals. At present, the provision of 100 beded, machinery & equipment is understood to be inadequate. A balancing, modernization, rehabilitation & extension of the hospital is an utmost need for a qualitative continuity, at the same time some extension is urgent. The hospital services are provided by 300 hands including 15 specialists, 52 doctors, 100 nurses, physiotherapist & others medical technologists. As an organization it 21 member Executive Committee serve voluntarily.
