A survey on the telemedicine in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a small developing country of South Asia with a huge number of populations. About 75% people live in rural areas where the healthcare facilities are very inadequate in contrast to the urban areas of Bangladesh. The healthcare facilities can effectively be given to this huge number of rural people through Telemedicine. The main aim of this paper is to find out the present states of Telemedicine in Bangladesh and their expectations on Telemedicine. The survey result shows that 94.80% expert doctors, 74% local doctors, 91.42% patients and 80.32% pharmacy owners of Bangladesh want to introduce telemedicine services for the huge number of rural people of our country. This research also proposes the telemedicine operating cost for Bangladesh. The results of this survey can be used to develop a standard open Telemedicine model which will be a feasible health care solution for the people of Bangladesh.