Bangladesh Hospital

Bangladesh Hospital was a temporary medical centre under the Sector-2 during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971. The hospital was an initiative of Captain Akhtar Ahmed who was a physician of 4th East Bengal Regiment in Comilla Cantonment.

It was situated in Agartala of India.

The almost nine-month-long Liberation War of Bangladesh started on March 26, 1971 after the Pakistan Army cracked down on the Bengali population of the then East Pakistan. The Pakistan Army also targeted the Bengali officers and soldiers of the armed forces in all the cantonments across the country.

As a result of s series of systematic terror established by the Pakistan Army, the enraged Bengali military officials and the people of the then East Pakistan revolted against Pakistan and retaliated against the Pakistan Army of occupation.

The Bangladesh Hospital started its journey in a cowshed of Shimantopur, a bordering area of Bangladesh, with Captain Akhtar Ahmed on March 29, 1971. The first patient of the hospital was a villager who was shot in his leg by Pakistan Army. Captain Akhtar found Naik Shamsu Miah from East Pakistan Rifles as his assistant.

Later on May 9, 1971, after the 4th East Bengal Regiment had to retreat due to the shortage of ammo, Dr. Ahmed had to shift his hospital to forest rest house of Sonamura of Tripura in India. During those days Nursing Subedar Mannan joined Dr. Ahmed as an assistant. But the very small sized medical centre was suffering from shortages of equipments and other necessary facilities. And Dr. Ahmed who was also appointed as a Company Commander of 4th East Bengal Regiment during the war was thinking of shifting the hospital to a better place.

Shortly after the battle of Shalda River that was held on June 1, Major Khaled Mosharraf realized the need of a hospital in his sector and directed Captain Akhtar Ahmed to establish a hospital with more facilities to operate operations and save the lives of those freedom fighters who were receiving injuries in the war and were dying for want of proper treatment.

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