In focus
How a hospital board in Bangladesh should actually vet a 'best hospital website company'
Before you sign anything, ask the vendor three questions and watch how they answer. First, who exactly writes the code, and who do we call when it breaks at 9pm? If the answer is a team, a department or a vague 'support desk', you are buying a junior behind a brand. With me, the answer is one name, mine, on every part of the job.
Second, can our reception staff update the OPD table and consultant photos themselves, in Bangla, without calling you? If they hesitate, the site is a locked box you will pay to open forever. Third, show me a hospital site you built, opening on a normal phone on mobile data, not office fibre. Most resellers go quiet here. Their template weighs eight megabytes, and a Banglalink connection chokes on it. These three questions filter out resellers faster than any portfolio.
On price, the honest answer to koto taka depends on the size of the hospital, not a salesperson's mood. A single-specialty clinic or small centre sits at the 50,000 BDT entry tier. That covers up to eight to ten consultants, a few department pages, an OPD schedule and one appointment form. A mid-size hospital with more consultants, six to eight departments, a health-package list and a reception-editable schedule costs about 90,000 BDT.
A full general hospital with department subpages, package booking, a blog and a patient portal sits at the 1,50,000 BDT tier. A bespoke build that connects with your HMIS or EMR starts from 3,00,000 BDT. You pay 50% advance to start and 50% on launch. Under the design-approval guarantee, if you truly reject the first complete design, you owe nothing. The best company for your board is not the cheapest quote. It is the one whose price maps to real work and whose name stays on the line after launch.