National Heart Foundation (Bangladesh)

National Heart Foundation is a health advocacy group and welfare organisation and is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh.^[1][2]

National Heart Foundation

Formation	1979
Headquarters	Dhaka, Bangladesh
Coordinates	23°46′N 90°21′E
Region served	Bangladesh
Official language	Bengali
Website	National Heart Foundation

History

National Heart Foundation was founded in 1979. The foundation established the Heart Diseases Institute and Hospital in Mirpur.^[3][4] Brigadier General Abdul Malik, national professor of Bangladesh, founded the foundation.^[5] The foundation released a smartphone app for heart patients in Bangladesh.^[6]

On 31 May 2018, the NHFD received the a World No Tobacco Day award by the governmental Health Service Division of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare for its "contribution to tobacco control" in the country and the vital role played "for prevention & control of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Bangladesh".^[7]

Milestone

For the first time, The National Heart Foundation of Bangladesh (NHFB) had conducted MICS.^[8] Dr. Asraful Hoque Sium was the surgeon of this operation.^[9]