BIRDEM explained

BIRDEM
Coordinates:23.7383°N 113.78°W
Location:Shahbag
Region:Dhaka
Country:Bangladesh
Patron:Muhammad Ibrahim
Publictransit:for BIRDEM Shahbagh: Shahbagh,

for BIRDEM Segunbagicha: Bangladesh Secretariat

BIRDEM, the Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders at Shahbag, Dhaka, Bangladesh, is a 650-bed multidisciplinary hospital complex of the Diabetic Association of Bangladesh. The hospital was established in 1980 with the financial support of Bangladesh.[1] In BIRDEM, 3,000 patients are treated in the Out Patients Department (OPD) every day. No other hospital in Bangladesh serves so many diabetes patients.

History

The Diabetic Association for Pakistan (later Bangladesh Diabetic Association) was formed under the leadership of national professor Muhammad Ibrahim in February 1956. He offered a ground floor room of his home in Segunbagicha, Dhaka, to be used by the association, and there he began outpatient services for diabetes. While Bangladesh was still part of Pakistan, the government granted the association land in Segunbagicha for a hospital. BIRDEM hospital was inaugurated in 1980 at Shahbagh. In 2013, BIRDEM-2 hospital was started in Segunbagicha.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: BIRDEM . Banglapedia . 2016-09-27.
  2. News: bn:বিশ্বের সবচেয়ে বড় হাসপাতাল . The largest hospital in the world . http://www.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/article/1343446/ . Prothom Alo . 14 October 2017 . bn . https://web.archive.org/web/20171014233619/http://www.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/article/1343446/ . 14 October 2017.