United Hospital Limited () is a private hospital in Gulshan-2,

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, Bangladesh. Mr. Malik Talha Ismail Bari is the Managing Director & CEO of United Hospital Limited. United Hospital Limited along with

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are considered high end private hospitals. The hospital is accredited by

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History

The hospital was conceptualized in the mid-1980s under the name Continental Hospital. It sits on a site on the west shore of

Gulshan Lake Gulshan Lake is a lake in Dhaka, Bangladesh, that borders Gulshan, Niketan, Badda, Shahjadpur and Baridhara Diplomatic Zone. History In June 2015 Bangladesh High Court ordered the government to vacate portions of Gulshan lake that had been enc ...

in Dhaka. By 1997, Indian architects C P Kukreja and Associates had produced a design consisting of two square blocks, the northern one smaller than the southern one because the site tapers to the north. The blocks are rotated roughly 45 degrees from the lake shore to afford lake views from two sides of each block. The two blocks, which nearly touch at one corner, are connected by an atrium. Each block has a basement and eight floors above ground. In 2004, Continental Hospital was purchased by a group of investors, led by

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and later renamed to United Hospital Limited. United Group signed agreements with Malaysian healthcare provider KPJ Healthcare in late 2004 to commission and manage the hospital. The 450 bed, facility opened on 24 August 2006. On 11 January 2018, United Hospital was sued for dodging 210 million taka in taxes by the Anti-Corruption Commission. On 21 March 2018, United Hospital was fined for having expired medicine and reagents by a mobile court. Former Prime Minister, Khaleda Zia, who is imprisoned, has filed petition with the Bangladesh Sumpreme Court seeking treatment at United Hospital on 9 September 2018. Inside view of United Hospital Limited

The first ever endoscopic laser assisted surgery in Bangladesh was performed at United Hospital Limited on 8 November 2015. Radical Cystoprostatectomy with Orthotopic Neobladder Reconstruction Surgery was performed by Dr M A Zulkifl at United Hospital Limited on a 60-year-old patient. Dr Ashim Kumar Sen Gupta successfully conducted the first chronomodulated chemotherapy on an elder patient with advanced colon cancer. United Hospital Limited successfully carried out its first

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on 25 July 2017.

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