‘Preparation of textbooks in Bengali crucial for medical sciences’

City Desk :
It has become crucial to prepare textbooks for the medical and health education in Bengali along with conventional books in English to help our next generations to advance in medical sciences.

Director General of Bangla Academy noted poet Mohammad Nurul Huda has expressed the opinion at a workshop at Begum Rokeya auditorium of the RDRS Bangladesh in Rangpur as chief guest.

Bangla Academy and Hypertension and Research Centre, Rangpur (HRCR), a sister organisation of ‘Wasim-Waleda Bahumukhi Kallyan Foundation’, jointly organised the workshop.

Around 250 expert physicians, teachers, doctors, writers, health workers, medical students, civil society representatives, local elite and media people participated in the workshop, reports BSS.

Founder President of HRCR, former Principal of Rangpur Medical College (RpMC) and renowned medicine specialist of the country Professor Dr Md Zakir Hossain presided over the event.

Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Director (Admin) of the Directorate of Family Planning Dr AHM Lokman spoke as special guests.

General Secretary of HRCR and Professor of the Department of Medicine at RpMC Dr. Shah Md. Sarwar Jahan delivered welcome speech narrating the goals and objectives of the event.