Gynecologist Professor Dr MA Taher Khan, founding principal and executive committee president of Chittagong Mother and Child Hospital Medical College, died at a hospital in Dhaka on Sunday. He was 83.
He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in the capital, said Chittagong Mother and Child Hospital’s vice president Jabed Abshar Chowdhury.
Dr Taher Khan was admitted to Chittagong Mother and Child Hospital with dengue fever. He was kept in ICU there. He suffered a head injury after falling and was then taken to Evercare Hospital.
Meanwhile, Chittagong Medical University, OBSB Chittagong Branch, Chittagong Mother and Child Hospital, Bangladesh Medical Association, Chittagong and various organizations have expressed deep shock at the death.
