Kushtia Medical College | |
Native Name: | কুষ্টিয়া মেডিকেল কলেজ |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Principal: | Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman Khan |
Academic Staff: | 60 (2017) |
Administrative Staff: | 20 |
Students: | 305 |
Country: | Bangladesh |
Campus: | Urban |
Language: | English |
Website: | https://www.kumc.edu.bd/ |
Other Name: | KuMC/কুষমেক |
Former Names: | --> |
Kushtia Medical College (Bengali: কুষ্টিয়া মেডিকেল কলেজ) is a government medical school in Kushtia, Bangladesh, established in 2011. The college is affiliated with Sheikh Hasina Medical University as a constituent college.
It offers a five-year MBBS degree programme and admits 65 students every year. The commencement of the academic activities started at the MATS, Kushtia temporarily. The permanent campus was started to build in the bank of canal beside the Kushtia-Dhaka Highway and opposite to the Housing #E Block. It is expected the academic and residential options could be supplant to the permanent campus in 2021.
In 1978-1979, the Bangladesh government planned to establish medical colleges at Bogra, Comilla, Dinajpur, Faridpur, Kushtia, Khulna, Noakhali and Pabna with a view to improve the healthcare services in the country. Subsequently, the programme was abandoned. Than the government felt the need for more medical colleges for medical education facilities. Accordingly, the government committed to establish four new medical colleges at Kushtia, Satkhira, Gopalganj and Kishoreganj with annual intakes of 52 students at each. The college was established in 2011. In 2011 it started educational service in a part of general hospital. Now it is a modern and technology based medical college and it is running with a 250 bed hospital.
serial | Name | Period | |
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1. | Iftekhar Mahmood | 2011-2015 (October) | |
2. | Jamal Uddin Molla | 2015 (November) - 2017 (January) | |
3. | Mir Mahfujul Haque Chowdhury | 2017 (January) - 2017 (October) | |
4. | S. M. Mostanzid | 2017 (October) - 2020 (February) | |
5. | Asraful Haque Dara | 2020 (February) - 2020 (July) | |
6. | Md.Saleque Masud Mian | 2020 (5 July) - 2020 (21 July) | |
7. | Shomsed Begum | 2020 (22 July) - ??? | |
8. | Deldar Hossain | ??? - 2023 (18 October) | |
9. | Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman Khan | 2023 (19 October) - present |
Construction work of a permanent campus of Kushtia Medical College started in 2013 at a cost of Tk. 275 crore. However, due to bureaucratic complications and negligence on the part of the contractor, the construction of permanent campus has been repeatedly extended.[1]
Kushtia Medical College has separate accommodation for boys and girls. The boys' hall is called Rifat-Milon Hostel and the girls' hall is called Rahima-Afsar Hostel.