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 Hotels,Restaurants,Guest-Houses :
Prime Guest House
Facilities:Car
Parking, A/C
Address:Abdul Hamid Road,Tel:65701,66901
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Hotel Park
Facilities:Residential hotel, Air Conditioned
Address:Abdul Hamid Road,Tel: 64096
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Hotel Shilton
Faclities:Car Parking,AC
Address:Abdul Hamid Road,Tel:62006,01712-433
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Shawgatam & Chinese Restaurant
Facilities:Residential
hotel,Air Conditioned
Address:Rupkatha
Road,Tel:64029,65861
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Midnight Moon Chinese Restaurant
Facilities:Residential
hotel,Car Parking, Air Conditioned
A.Hamid Road.Tel:65787
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Government Rest Houses:A total of 16 governmental
resthouses are in this district.These are entitled for official/semi
official guests which can be used only by them during the government
assignments or purposes.
The Pabna Circuit House,Nurpur Rest House:
Tel:65088,65500,64586
White mosquito-curtain is recommended : Get sure
that you have in your baggage a mosquito-net or mosquito-repellents
with you during the stay in Pabna. Malaria is still very common
mosquito borne disease.
Currency Exchange: Now-a-days, a large number of
Pabnites are working in the countries of Asia-Pacific
region,Europe,US & ME.Money transaction is easy and almost free
of beurocratic procedures. Many banks have opened their
foreign currency section.Always carry your passport with you while
you exchange your currency.Remember,you can change US$ 5000:- at a
time/day.Mutual Trust Bank will launch the first Automatic bank or minibank or ATM in Pabna
very soon.Thus VISA,Master-card will be acceptable in butiks and shopping malls.
Banking Service:.Major bangladeshi public and private banks
have their branches in Pabna town as well as in 9 thanas.All
Bank provides the facility for bying and selling of EURO,USD &
GBP at their main branch at Pabna town.Visa,master and other major
credit and debit cards can be used at ATM booths but not
yet at butiks.
Nearest Holidays & Office Times in
Bangladesh
Drinking
Water,Food:For a foreign tourist, who has not visited and stayed
in Bangladesh in the recent years, the following things are
recommended:
Utmost precautions against drinking
water,softdrinks,icecreams,juices.
Arsenic contamination has
become a menace in several parts of this district,but not in and
vicinity of the town. Vaccines like Hepatitis,Typhoid,DPT,BCG,rabbies
are available in almost every medicine stores.Purified Bottled water is sold in medicine stores can
be used for drinking.
Price:about 50 cents for 2 litres.
Fresh fruits like orange,apple,banana,mango,water
melon,papaya grapes,dates are sold in plenty throughout the
year.Coconut water is recommended for drinking.
All types of tinned or
preserved foods must be checked with Bar-codes,mfgdates and expiary
dates.
Fuel Stations :About
five Fuel stations are situtaed in the town and they are at of the
main road.Diesel,Gasoline and Octane are sold. All sorts of fuel are
supplied from Baghabari river port Oil-depot.
Mobil,lubeoil,automobile spareparts are available.A good number of
car sevicing centers furnished with skilled technicians are situated
beside the main road. At present,there two Compressed Natural Gas(CNG)
refuelling staions and conversion unit,at Maligacha beside Pabna by-pass road.
Important
Telephone Numbers:
Telephone Enquiry:17,Telephone Complain:18
Overseas Trunk-call Booking:152,156
Medical
Coverage:
Khwaja Yunus Ali Medical
College and Hospital
Grameen Phone Health Line:789
Pabna Medical College
& Hospital
For more inf. about the
Telecommunication in Pabna pls. click here.
Doctors: Medicine Specialists and Surgeons are
available at the following clinics
| Private
Clinics & Diagonastic Centres |
Popular General
Hospital
Laproscopy,Plastic surgery
Near Muajhid
Club,
Tel:66832,62205,01711-302 435 |
Ichamoti
Clinic
Shalgaria
Tel:65772,64492,01711-373 722 |
Pabna Diagonastic
Centre & Hospital,
Furnished with a good
number of consultants
& equipments.
Shalgaria
Tel:63032 |
Holy Care
Hospital
Surgeon,Gastroentologist,
Sonapatti,Tel:65359 |
Modern Diagonastic
Home
Paedriatician,Gynokologist,Thorasist,
Gastroentologist
Dr.Ishak
Rd,TeL:65711 |
Muslim Aid Community
Clinic
Laskarpur,
Tel:65615,01711-647615 |
Pabna
Diabetic Hospital
situated at Gachpara by
pass,recently finished.
Tel:65052 |
Ishurdi Eye Hospital &
Phaco Center
Sher Shah
Road,Ishurdi
Tel:63907,01711-408297 |
Pabna Shasthaseba
Hospital
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Live saving medicine:Medcine
stores/Apoteks furnished with qualified Physicians can be found in
all parts of the town.
City Medical Hall, has the good reputation for selling
medicine since 1960, Here You can get almost all sorts
of medicines,Oxygen mask(with cylinder),asthma inhaler,blood
glucose counting machine etc.,is open on every day(8am-10pm),except
on just prayer time(between 12pm-2pm) on Friday.Open even on
religious festivals like Eid,Puja etc. and on
Hartal-days.
City Medical Hall Tel:65842
Medcine stores in front of the Pabna General
Hospital are open till 2am(that is 2 o'clock at night),there you can
also get live saving medicine.
Dentist:Dental clinic of good
standard established in Pabna by a benovalent dentist.
Dentist:Dr. Monwarul Aziz.
Clinic name &
Location:Modern Dental Clinic,Gopalpur(just behind Pabna Zilla
School)
Tel:65858
Photography/studios and
film availability:Color and B&W photo films(for 35mm
camera,which is commonly used) are available in all small and large
film studios. Among them are Agfa,Fuji,Konica,Kodak,River can be
named.
Fuji & Konica have their own color photo
processing lab in the town. It takes around one hour for film
development and several hours for printing. Now-a-days photos taken
by digital camera,web camera or mobile phone can be printed here at
mobile or internet butiks in the town.
Rent-a-car Service:24 hours service available.In
front of Annada Plaza,near the city centre.
Rickshaw is the most environment friendly and cheapest
transport medium for upto 10-12 km tour.The cost of hiring a
rickshaw is about BDT40-50/hour.
Vaccinations:All the western tourists are
reccomended to have prophylaxis against Hepatitis,Malaria,Cholera
before they come to Pabna.Please follow the recommendations of WHO
or Health Services of Bangladesh Government.
Mosques:Almost every locality has its own mosque.The
Oldest Mosque at
Bharara(about15 km SE of the town)is recommended for Friday
prayer.If the weather is good,just take a rickshaw(fair about 1USD)
and visit the mosque.It's well maintained and managed.
Here is Namaz time schedule
Hindu Temples:Bhanga kalibari,Joy
Kalibari,Bhadra Kalibari
Churches:Sunday prayer is arranged by the local Baptist
Church(established by the australian missionaries,1931).
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Inside of newly reconstructed Pabna Baptist
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