Tajul Hossain Explained

Tajul Hossain was a veteran of the Bangladesh Liberation War and the first Health Secretary of Bangladesh.^{[1] [2]} He was a Trustee Board member of Independent University, Bangladesh.

Early life

Tajul Hossain was born in 1920 in Comilla District, British India.^[3] He completed his medical studies in Kolkata and Dhaka in the early 1940s and was associated with M. N. Roy.^[4]

Career

Tajul Hossain did his post graduate studies at the New York University Medical Center.^[5]

Tajul Hossain served in the Bangladesh Liberation War as an organizer.^[6]

After the Independence of Bangladesh Tajul Hossain was appointed the First Health Secretary of the country. He talked to The New York Times about the importance of birth control in Bangladesh when there seven births in every minute in the country. He was a member of the Central Committee of Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League, the one party government that ruled Bangladesh in the early 1970s.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: IUB pays tributes to its Trustee Freedom Fighters in Mujib Centenary . 2022-05-30 . www.iub.edu.bd.
2. Book: Bangladesh News . 1973 . Press and Information Division, Bangladesh High Commission . 11 . en.
3. Book: A Handbook of Oral History: Abstracts of Interviews Taken by the Oral History Project . 1992 . Bangladesh National Museum . 96 . en.
4. Book: The Radical Humanist . Radical Humanist . 2006 . 7 . en.
5. News: Bernard . Weinraub . 1974-02-01 . 7 Births Every Minute: Bangladesh's Biggest Long-Range Problem . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-05-30 . 0362-4331.
6. Web site: IUB pays tribute to Trustee Freedom Fighters in Mujib Centenary . 2022-05-30 . The Financial Express . en.
7. Book: Bangladesh News . 1973 . Press and Information Division, Bangladesh High Commission . en.