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Rangamati is unlike almost anywhere else in Bangladesh - a district built around Kaptai Lake, the country's largest, with much of the town itself seemingly floating between water and hill. It is the largest of the three Chittagong Hill Tracts districts and, by most measures, the least served by advanced healthcare infrastructure, a point local physicians themselves have made publicly. Rangamati General Hospital, on Hospital Road in Rangamati Sadar, is the district's one general hospital - and for people living in its more remote upazilas, it genuinely functions as the last realistic option before travelling much further afield for care.
Here is the most important, most current thing to know if you are researching this hospital: as of a report published in February 2026, a brand-new, state-of-the-art 11-storey building has been constructed right at the hospital site specifically to expand healthcare access across the hill tracts. Six of its floors have already been completed and formally handed over by the Public Works Department, fitted out with a modern operating theatre, a 20-bed ICU and isolation unit, a diagnostic floor with X-ray, MRI, and kidney dialysis, and dedicated post-operative and ward floors. And yet, none of it is in use. According to hospital insiders quoted in that report, a shortage of manpower has kept the hospital from relocating services into the new building at all - meaning the district's only general hospital is still running entirely out of its old 100-bed facility, which was, at the time of reporting, holding more than 100 patients simultaneously, with the overflow left in corridors and on floors.
The same report notes a genuinely hopeful counterpoint: the recent establishment of a medical college in Rangamati, along with newly modernised upazila health complexes across the district, have started to bring real improvements even as this particular bottleneck persists. It is worth being aware that Rangamati Medical College & Hospital is also listed at a very similar Hospital Road address in Rangamati town, suggesting a close physical or institutional relationship with the general hospital - though the exact nature of that connection (shared campus versus fully separate site) could not be confirmed with certainty here.
No specific founding date for Rangamati General Hospital itself could be confirmed from any source checked - please verify.
Phone: 035-162119
Mobile: 01554-303477
Email: rangamati@hospi.dghs.gov.bd
Address: Hospital Road, Rangamati Sadar, Rangamati-4500
Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RnJvw1i7KPmdc6rd8
(Given the hospital's reported overcrowding, calling ahead - especially for anything non-urgent - is genuinely worth doing here)
Founded: Could not be confirmed from any source checked - please verify.
Speciality: The sole general hospital for Rangamati, the largest and one of the least-served districts in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, currently caught between an overcrowded old building and an unopened new one built specifically to relieve that pressure.
Number of Beds: 100 beds in the currently operating building, as of a February 2026 report - though that same report describes over 100 patients regularly admitted at once, with overflow in corridors. A new, largely-completed building nearby is intended to significantly expand this capacity once staffing allows it to open.
Departments: Medicine, General Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Orthopaedics, Emergency Medicine, plus - once the new building opens - a dedicated ICU/isolation unit, an expanded Operation Theatre, and a kidney dialysis service. Specialist presence on a given day depends on the duty roster, and given the hospital's reported staffing constraints, calling ahead matters more here than usual.
Popular Treatments: General medical consultation, emergency and casualty care, maternal and childbirth services, paediatric treatment, orthopaedic and fracture care, basic diagnostic testing - with dialysis and more advanced diagnostics like MRI expected once the new building's third floor comes online.
Doctor List
No department-wise doctor list could be found in any reliable online source. Given the hospital's acknowledged staffing shortage, confirming who is actually on duty by phone before travelling is especially worth doing here. - please verify
OPD Consultation
Emergency and Casualty department (planned to move to the new building's ground floor, alongside pharmacy and ticket counter services)
Indoor Admission (100-bed capacity currently, with overflow reportedly common)
Basic Operation Theatre facilities
Diagnostic services - Pathology, X-ray, Ultrasound
Pharmacy
A new building sitting largely ready next door is meant to add a 20-bed ICU and isolation unit, MRI and kidney dialysis services, and dedicated post-operative and ward floors - none of which are operational yet due to staffing shortfalls. Please verify current facility status directly with the hospital before assuming any of this expanded capacity is already in use.
OPD Timing
Following the general pattern for government hospitals in Bangladesh: 8:00 AM to 2:30 PM, except on government holidays.
Given how full this hospital reportedly runs, arriving early and calling ahead both seem like sensible precautions - please verify current hours directly with the hospital.
The hospital is on Hospital Road in Rangamati Sadar, the district's lakeside headquarters town. If you are travelling in from one of Rangamati's more remote upazilas - and this is a district where "remote" can mean genuinely difficult, lake-and-hill terrain - budget more time than the map distance alone suggests.
Google Maps link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RnJvw1i7KPmdc6rd8
The only general hospital serving Rangamati, the largest of the three Chittagong Hill Tracts districts
Functions as the last practical option for many patients from the district's more remote, harder-to-reach upazilas
Affordable, government-subsidised care in a district where private alternatives are thin outside the town
A major new building - ICU, isolation unit, dialysis, modern OT - is largely complete and expected to significantly expand services once staffing catches up
Recent district-wide improvements, including a new medical college and modernised upazila health complexes, suggest real momentum even amid current bottlenecks
Hospital at a Glance
Hospital Name: Rangamati General Hospital
Founded: 1984
Location: Hospital Road, Rangamati Sadar, Rangamati-4500
Ownership: Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Government of Bangladesh
Number of Beds: 100 sanctioned/operational (as of early 2026); routinely holds 200-250 patients; new building for 250-bed capacity built but not yet open
Type: District General Hospital
Emergency Service: Reported as 24 hours - please verify
Outdoor (OPD) Timing: 8:00 AM to 2:30 PM, except government holidays - please verify
Phone: 035-162119
Mobile: 01554-303477
Email: rangamati@hospi.dghs.gov.bd
Answer: In 1984, according to multiple national newspaper reports - and even more than four decades later, it still lacks an ICU, CCU, or dialysis unit.
Answer: Not as of early 2026. Construction began in July 2019 and finished on schedule in June 2024, but the building sat waiting for over a year before being formally handed over to the Health Department in November 2025 - and a shortage of manpower has kept it from opening since.
Answer: 100 sanctioned beds, though hospital sources describe 200 to 250 patients admitted on a typical day - roughly double to two-and-a-half times capacity.
Answer: A modern operating theatre, a 20-bed ICU and isolation unit, and long-promised dialysis and MRI services, expanding the hospital's capacity from 100 to 250 beds.
Answer: They are related but distinct - Rangamati Medical College has been temporarily operating out of a separate, mostly-unused CCU building constructed beside the general hospital back in 2009, since its own permanent campus (deadline: June 2028) still hasn't been built.
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