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Liver transplant: Sister saves brother

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Bogura resident 53-year-old Monetzar Rahman received a liver transplant from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) physicians.

At a press conference yesterday, BSMMU officials stated Montezar’s sister Shamima Akter, 43, gave 60% of her liver to save her brother. The Prime Minister’s Relief and Welfare Fund paid for surgery.

BSMMU surgeons performed the 15-hour-long complex surgery on January 1. This is one of the only seven liver transplant surgeries performed in this country so far.

The surgery went well and both the patient and the donor were doing fine, according to the doctors. They will be released from the hospital shortly and will remain under observation for one year, they added.

The patient and the donor both joined the press conference at the BSMMU virtually and thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the physicians and staffers of BSMMU.

Montezar Rahman was admitted to the BSMMU with liver illness a few months ago.

After his diagnosis, doctors decided that a liver transplant was the only way to cure him. Later, they found his sister to be the ideal donor for him.

Speaking at the press conference, BSMMU VC Prof Sharfuddin Ahmed, said, “There have been seven liver transplant surgeries in the country. Of those, we (BSMMU) have done two.”

He said many patients go abroad for liver transplant surgeries, which cost about Tk 40-50 lakh. “But we hope we will continue to perform such surgeries here at half the cost,” the VC added.

Prof Mohsen Chowdhury, chairman of the hepatobiliary, pancreatic and liver transplant department, said liver transplant surgery is quite challenging and done in three steps.

“The surgery started at 7:00am and ended at 10:00pm,” he said.

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UGC honours 3 teachers of BSMMU

Admin — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 06:15:59 +0000

The University Grants Commission has honoured three teachers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, including its vice chancellor Pran Gopal Datta,
for their fundamental and innovative researches.
The UGC awarded 23 scholars of the country for their innovative research work recently, said a press release of the BSMMU.
Pran Gopal Datta was awarded for his research ‘Tubercular Lymphadenitis: Diagnostic Evaluation’. It is believed to be an important contribution to the detection and treatment of tuberculosis.
BSMMU infertility expert Parvin Fatema was honoured for her contribution to the work on blood and semen linkages.
BSMMU assistant professor Fouzia Hossain was honoured for research in the field of ovarian cancer.

-With New Age input

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BSMMU opens haematology evening outdoor

Admin — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 05:30:09 +0000

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University expanded its evening specialists’ consultation services with the addition of haematology department in the service from Saturday.
Professors and associate professors will see patient at the department from Saturday to Wednesday evening, said BSMMU vice-chancellor Pran Gopal Datta while opening the department.
The patients suffering from blood related diseases, including blood cancer- leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma, anaemia, thalassemia, hemophilia, thrombosis and dengue will be treated here.
The university started evening services on October 1, 2011, first of its kind in the country, with professors and associate professors of seven departments – Medicine, Paediatricts, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Skin and Venereal Diseases, Ear, Nose and Throat, Cardiology, and Physical Medicine – attending patients everyday from 3:00pm to 6:00pm.
At present specialised consultancy services are run at 21 departments, said Datta.
The other departments are rheumatology (Tuesday and Thursday), endocrinology (Tuesday), chest disease department (Saturday and Tuesday), eye, gastroenterology, nephrology, urology, neuro-medicine, liver, psychology, surgery and orthopaedic surgery departments.
The service offers specialists’ prescription only for Tk 200, which is otherwise Tk 500 to Tk 1000 in private chambers.
The university vice-chancellor Pran Gopal Datta said they start the service to reach specialised health care to the poor patients at low cost. ‘We have attended over 93, 000 patients till February this year.
Currently BSMMU has 29 beds including four beds for the daycare patients in haematology department, among which 15 beds are non-paying bed.
However, the health rights activists said at evening outdoor, the hospital authorities are now allowed to charge more than the usual fees.
The university charges Tk 30 for its morning outdoor services.

-With New Age input

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BSMMU observes founding day

Admin — Wed, 01 May 2013 05:50:57 +0000

Bangladesh’s lone medical university Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman celebrated its 15th founding day on Tuesday. The celebration was kept a low-key affair in view of the Savar tragedy. In 1998, the then Awami League government had upgraded the former Institute of Post-Graduate Medicine and Research to the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University on this day. ... Read more

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BSMMU starts online admission process

Admin — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:29:24 +0000

The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) authority yesterday launched its online admission process for MS, MD, MPhil and other courses under residency programme.
BSMMU Vice Chancellor Pran Gopal Datta launched it at the university, said a release.
The admission test will be held in two phases. In phase-A, candidates will have to apply before October 18 and the test will be held on Nov 16.
In phase-B, which is for the foreign students, the last date of application is November 22. For detail information, visit www.bsmmu.edu.bd, www.bsmmu.org.

-With The Daily Star input

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BSMMU reckons introducing music therapy

Admin — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:06:08 +0000

The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University authorities are pondering on setting up a music therapy centre, a proposal they have recently received from a music teacher.
The university’s vice-chancellor Pran Gopal Datta said they were giving it a serious thought but lacked funding for the job.
‘We haven’t made any decision yet though we are serious about the proposal. Besides, we don’t have any funds for such a centre,’ he told New Age.
M Mahamudul Hasan, teaching violin at the Bulbul Academy of Fine Arts in the capital, submitted his proposal to the university on April 10.
BSMMU urology professor Abdus Salam who received the proposal termed music therapy as an auxiliary treatment method.
‘It is a kind of adjunctive method for treating patients that physicians in many countries apply, besides their conventional treatment procedures,’ he said.
It can be more applicable to terminally ill patients for many of whom pain management is vital.
‘Music can be fruitfully used as part of palliative care of these patients suffering from severe pain,’ said the professor.
It can also be used as a complementary procedure in treating people with mental retardation and mental illnesses.
‘You can apply it treating autistic children,’ Salam said, adding music therapy might help their rehabilitation processes, too.
Mahamudul Hasan talked about the use of the therapy in many countries, India among them, in treating many conditions.
‘It is widely used, for example, in treating high blood pressure and neck pain and headache caused by it,’ he said and mentioned that the therapy was an established healthcare profession, addressing the patients’ physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs.
A qualified music therapist, usually after elaborate sessions with patients, diagnoses the illnesses and prescribes suitable treatment procedures that may range from creating and singing music to listening to music, Mahmudul Hasan said.
‘A very new concept here,’ remarked Salam but hoped once introduced the therapy would benefit the patients.
As a beginning Hasan thinks of not-so-costly a setup. ‘It just needs you to put together some musical instruments in a room that has been soundproofed,’ says the violinist, who, though hopeful, is aware like others at the BSMMU that it may take music therapy long to get acceptance from the country’s larger medical community and patients as well.

-With New Age input

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A hospital with a difference

Admin — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:16:09 +0000

BSMMU introduces specialised consultation service for patients
More patients come, from more distant places every day. And the number rises every other day to take the “evening specialised consultation service” at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.
October 1, the first day of the service, saw 89 patients. As the number crossed the 200 mark in the last few days, the authorities responded by opening more departments.
The evening service starts after the regular outdoor patient department closes at 2:00pm. Specialised doctors, particularly professors and associate professors, see patients between 3:00pm and 6:00pm for Tk 200 each. The service is available every day except for Friday.
The BSMMU came up with the service against the backdrop of doctors facing criticism for their preference in seeing patients at private chambers than in public hospitals.
“This is a magnificent idea. I’ve been suffering from a throat problem for two months but I’m too poor to afford a specialised doctor. Now I’ve an opportunity,” said 40-year-old Begum, who came from Nampara in Genda.
“A specialised doctor charges Tk 800-1,000 for a visit,” she said, adding that sometimes it takes even three months to get an appointment.
She learnt about the service on television. Before coming to the BSMMU, she saw a local doctor but the medication failed to heal her throat.
At present, patients are served under seven departments — medicine, paediatrics, ENT, gynaecology, skin and sex diseases, physical medicine and cardiology. The authorities are planning to open more departments including haematology and neuro-medicine.
“We want to make medical service available to the people who need it the most,” said BSMMU Vice-chancellor Prof Pran Gopal Datta.
During a visit on Sunday around 12:00noon, this correspondent saw many patients waiting to see the doctors. They generally hailed the initiative but said the service lacks coordination.
“Please write down for me the departments under which treatment is being provided. I want to bring my mother soon,” said Beauty Sultana of Tangail. On Sunday, she brought her 78-year-old father.
Ekhlas Uddin read about the service in newspaper and came all the way from Gazipur.
“It feels great. The idea is at once unique and rewarding for me as a doctor,” said Prof Saleha Begum Chowdhury, a gynaecologist at BSMMU.
Hospital Director Brig Gen Abdul Majid Bhuiyan said people are coming from as far as Nilphamari and Rajshahi.
“We’re thinking about institutionalising the service so it never stops,” he said.
Sources at the hospital, however, said some doctors are unwilling to continue the service, as it hampers their private practice.
“Many don’t like to have their unquestioned independence compromised,” said Pran Gopal referring to the doctors who work at the hospital for six hours a day and then go to their private chambers.
BSMMU has about 200 professors and associate professors.
However, the hospital director said there is nothing to worry. “The service is not going to be stopped anyway. And if our initiative encourages other hospitals, many people will be benefited,” he told The Daily Star.

-With The Daily Star input

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BSMMU opens own medicine shop

Admin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:02:40 +0000

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University on Sunday inaugurated its own medicine shop in the hospital compound.
The shop, located in front of the cabin block, remains open round the clock. Medicine and other medical materials would be available here at a discount.
BSMMU vice chancellor Pran Gopal Datta, while inaugurating the shop, said the medicine sales centre had been opened to facilitate smooth treatment. ‘It is not a business venture. The patients will get medicine at a fare price here.’
Proper temperature for safe storage of medicines would be maintained strictly here, he said, adding that automated sale system and closed circuit camera have been installed for ensuring quality of service and items as well.
He urged the physicians, nurses and all other staff of the university to maintain cordial behaviour with the patients.
BSMMU hospital director Brigadier General Abdul Majid Bhuiyan and BSMMU pro-VC M Shahidullah attended, among others, the inaugural programme.

-With New Age input

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Doctor accused of stalking

Admin — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:57:45 +0000

A doctor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) was suspended yesterday following an allegation of physically harassing a teenage female patient.
Saiful Islam, junior consultant of Department of Ophthalmology, allegedly harassed the patient at the outdoor department of the hospital around 11:15am.
BSMMU Director Brig Abdul Bhuiyan said the victim had already left the hospital when the complaint was tendered. Based on the verbal complaint of the patient’s sister, the accused was suspended around 12:00 pm, as the issue is very sensitive.
A nine-member committee headed by Controller Prof Nurjahan Begum has been formed to investigate the matter. The committee was asked to submit its report within seven working days.
The patient’s sister Maksuda later lodged a written complaint with the hospital authorities around 4:00pm, in which she mentioned herself as a student of Dhaka University but did not incorporate the names of her department and the patient.
Meanwhile, Saiful Islam denied the allegation saying that he just helped the patient turn at the vision board.
A general diary (GD) was filed with Shahbagh Police Station in connection with the harassment.
According to the GD, Maksuda and her sister went to the outdoor department of ophthalmology around 9:15am and that Duty doctor Saiful Islam physically harassed the patient there.

Via: The Daily Star

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