LAMB at a glance
Location
LAMB is in Dinajpur District, North West Bangladesh, about 320 km by road from Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital city. LAMB Hospital lies on the direct route between Dinajpur and Rangpur cities, about 25 km East of Dinajpur and 40 km West of Rangpur.
The hospital itself is in a rural setting, the nearest town Parbatipur lies 2 km to the East. The area that LAMB serves through its community work lies within a circle around the main site of about 120 km.
We are fortunate that our region is not often directly affected by earthquakes, flooding, or cyclones.
Key Facilities
At the main site you will find:
100 bed general hospital, with additional facilities for outpatients
A residential training centre with 10 classrooms and facilities for 90 trainees
Offices for hospital, centrally-based community and support staff
Residential accommodation for more than 150 members of staff and their families and a Guest House for short term workers and visitors
English-medium school teaching for staff and local children
Key Programmes
Wholistic Health - persons, families, and communities enjoy relational peace and physical, social, emotional, and spiritual health.
Improving Health
Health Services - household to clinic to hospital continuum of care covering women and children, surgery, medicine and at LAMB Hospital and a network of community clinics
Health Access - providing the poorest low-cost subsidised care
Health Workforce - the LAMB Training Centre graduates 30 per year from both nursing and midwifery courses
Sustainable Leadership Development - community managed health care, staff and local Christians trained, coached and mentored.
Community Transformation - social risk reduction including development, disaster preparedness, ending child marriage.
Advocacy and Research - leveraging lessons learned from experience and research into health, nutrition, social factors affecting health using health data collected from the community and LAMB Hospital.
Staff
LAMB has 700 staff, after the closing of two large projects recently (2020). 560 are permanent, and 135 are contract staff working on funded community and research projects. The majority of our staff are Bangladeshi, with approximately 20 foreign staff adding expertise and training capacity. Of the staff, 39% are Christian, 49% Muslim and 12% Hindu.
Finances
LAMB’s annual budget is currently GB £2.35 million, US $3.2 million, or slightly over 27 crore taka (2021).
Income is from a variety of sources: international and local institutional donors as well as personal and church-related donations to allow subsidised services. Approximately 65% of funding is fee for service, while the 35% remainder is relies on grants and donations. Of inpatients, 66% receive a subsidy from the Poor Fund for their bill. 6% of patients pay less than US$10 and about 28% pay nothing at all.