Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation AHM Khairuzzaman Liton has said the Rajshahi Medical University (RMU) will be the milestone in medical education and healthcare services in the region to meet the gradually mounting demands.
He said these while speaking at a training workshop of the university at a hotel in Rahshahi on Wednesday afternoon as the chief guest.
The RMU hosted the daylong workshop related to delivering mark-sheet of formative, oral and practical examinations of the first vocational MBBS, BDS and Medical Technology of RMU through online in digital method.
RMU Vice-Chancellor Prof Masum Habib chaired the function, while it was addressed, among others, by Principal of Rajshahi Medical College Prof Nawshad Ali, RMU Faculty Deans Prof Zawadul Haque and Prof Asafuddowla and Controller of Examinations Prof SMA Huraiyra.
Mayor Liton said, “We are very much hopeful about expanding the RMU’s qualitative and quantitative medical education to face the existing challenges in the sector,”
He also said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given instruction towards giving utmost emphasis on medical research side by side with higher education.
He urged all concerned to take the RMU to a new height so that the people from the neighboring countries can feel comfort for their medical education and research purposes.
Prof Masum Habib said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina instructed to quick implement of the university’s academic activities for increasing the prospect of treatment in the region. All the existing public and private medical colleges, dental colleges and nursing colleges and institutes in Rajshahi, Rangpur and Khulna divisions have been brought under jurisdiction of RMU since 2017-18 session.
In phases, the university will conduct 90 post-graduate courses under eight faculties from now on, he added.
Besides, there will be a 1000-bed modern hospital attached to the university. A nursing institute will also be established for creating skilled nurses. Acquisition process of 86 acres of land in Borobangram area in the city is progressing fast.
He also said all necessary activities are being done with transparency and accountability in order to generating skilled manpower in the field of medical research and treatment.
