DHAKA, June 10, 2018 (BSS) – Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammed
Nasim today expressed his optimism that the 500-bed specialized “Sheikh
Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery” will start its journey
in September.
“World’s largest burn and plastic surgery institute will be inaugurated
after the name of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the month of her birth
anniversary in September,” he told newsmen while visiting the under-
construction institute in Chankharpool area.
The minister said the 12-storied institute will provide advanced treatment
to burn patients while physicians and nurses will also get training from it.
Nasim said Bangladesh Army has been completing the construction of the
institute with sincerity and efficiency.
Chief of Army Staff General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq, Health
Ministry Additional Secretary Bablu Kumar Saha, National Burn and Plastic
Surgery Unit Chief Coordinator Dr Samanta Lal Sen and Dhaka Medical College
Hospital Director Brigadier General AKM Nasir Uddin, among others, were
present on the occasion.
The project got the approval of Executive Committee of the National
Economic Council (ECNEC) on November 24, 2015. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
laid the foundation stone of the institute on April 6, 2016.