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 on your office fibre. Most resellers go quiet at that point, because their template weighs eight megabytes and a Banglalink connection chokes on it. These three questions filter out the resellers faster than any portfolio gallery.
On price, the honest BD answer to koto taka depends on the size of the hospital, not on a salesperson's mood. A single-specialty clinic or small centre with up to eight to ten consultants, a few department pages, an OPD schedule and one appointment form sits at the 50,000 BDT entry tier. A mid-size hospital with more consultants, six to eight departments, a health-package listing and a reception-editable schedule lands around the 90,000 BDT tier.
A full general hospital with department subpages, package booking, blog and a patient portal sits at the 1,50,000 BDT tier, and a bespoke build that integrates with your HMIS or EMR starts from 3,00,000 BDT. Payment is 50% advance to start and 50% on launch, and the design-approval guarantee means if you genuinely reject the first complete design, you owe nothing.
The best hospital website company for your board is not the cheapest quote on the WhatsApp group, it is the one whose price maps to real work and whose name stays on the line after launch.