Old, often grainy images of Bangladesh’s War of Liberation show carrion feeding on the bloated bodies of murdered Bangali civilians along the rivers and marshes of the country. And among these pictures is the odd spectacle of grinning Bangali villagers holding up the severed head of a Pakistani soldier killed by the Mukti Bahini.
People always speak in favour of those who receive services. But, we have to take into account the fact that the number of patients in the chambers of specialist doctors increases in the afternoon. On the other hand, the number of specialist doctors is so small compared to the population of Bangladesh that a doctor has to see about 100 patients in their private chamber in the
On December 16, 1971, life took a quantum leap when we heard Indira Gandhi on All India Radio announce, ‘Dhaka is now the free capital of a free country.’
26 May 2021 Dr Captain (retired) Syed Ahmed Mortada :Dr Akhteruddin Ahmed, the then Civil Surgeon of Sylhet established Sylhet Medical School, almost single handed, in 1948. He fulfilled the long felt need for a medical school in the then Sylhet district town surmounting many challenges and heavy odds.In 1962, Sylhet Medical College was upgraded to Sylhet Medical College and after the emergence of independent Bangladesh it was renamed Sylhet.