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Dr Shahida Akhter: A tireless physician, researcher and humanitarian
Prof Dr Shahida Akhter (1961-2021)
Professor Dr Shahida Akhter, a well-known child health specialist, passed away prematurely from liver cancer at 59 years of age on May 1, 2021. She was soft-spoken, introverted, humble and beloved by many people.
The most appropriate portrait of Dr Shahida would be as follows a person and physician endowed with high morals, a symbol of ethical medical practice, an ardent promoter of health rights and health equity, and an activist who fought against all kinds of malpractice in health, including indiscriminate use of expensive life-saving drugs, over-prescription of antibiotics to children, and the practice of unnecessary and profit-driven caesarian operations during child delivery. She was also an uncompromising activist who fought against the unholy alliance of the medical-health-pharmaceutical industrial complex and worked to establish the oft-ignored right to health of ordina
Dr Morshed made BAS expatriate fellow
Staff Correspondent
28th February, 2021 10:49:08
Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) has selected Dr Muhammad Morshed, a Bangladeshi native Canadian clinical microbiologist, as an expatriate fellow. The decision taken in December last year was revealed on Sunday.
The academy said Dr Morshed is elected for his outstanding professional contributions to the field of microbiology and demonstration of leadership at the national and international level in the areas of research, teaching and clinical services.
Only 14 expatriate Bangladeshi scientists, including Dr Morshed, were given such honour since the independence of the country.
Dr Muhammad Morshed is currently working as a clinical professor at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of University of British Columbia in Canada.
Staff Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Published: 30 Dec 2020 04:36 PM BdST
Updated: 30 Dec 2020 04:36 PM BdST
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has provided financial assistance worth Tk 100 million to Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital. );
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MM Imrul Kayes, assistant press secretary to the prime minister, said the funds will go towards ensuring free medical care for children with congenital heart diseases without needing to undergo surgery.
Prime Minister s Office Secretary Tofazzel Hossain Miah on behalf of Hasina handed over the cheque to the hospital s Director Syed Shafi Ahmed on Wednesday.
The hospital has been run as an autonomous institution since its inception in 1977.
Earlier this year, the cabinet approved a proposal to merge Dhaka Shishu Hospital and Bangladesh Institue of Child Health.