The Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim formally announced the Rajshahi Medical College as Shaheed AHM Kamruzzaman Medical University yesterday.
The minister said the Rajshahi Medical College is being named after AHM Kamruzaman who was the minister for relief and rehabilitation of the expatriate government during the Liberation War in 1971.
The minister made the declaration at a views-exchange meeting at the Kaisar Ali Memorial Auditorium of Rajshahi Medical College.
Shaheed Kamruzzaman is also the father of Khairuzzaman Liton, former mayor of the Rajshahi City Corporation.
The Health Ministry issued a circular on April 15 stating that the government had decided to upgrade the status of the Chittagong and Rajshahi medical colleges into medical universities.
Sources said these would be the country’s second (and third) public medical universities. At present, there is only one medical university, the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University. This latter was also upgraded from being a post-graduate institute to a medical university in 1998.
Former Rajshahi city mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, local lawmaker Fazle Hossain Badsha, Bangladesh Medical Association President Mahmud Hasan, Secretary General Iqbal Arsalan, were present at the programme among others.
Earlier, the Awami League government had initiated the status upgrade of the Dhaka Medical College into a medical university but had to cancel the decision due to a huge protest from the third and fourth class employees of the hospital.
