Tributes paid to MR Khan

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Staff Reporter :
People from all walks of life paid their last respects to noted physician and National Professor MR Khan at the Central Shaheed Minar on Sunday.
They started to place floral wreaths when the coffin of MR Khan reached Central Shaheed Minar at around 12:30pm.
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim, Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon, Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Professor AAMS Arefin Siddique, Vice-Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University(BSMMU) Quamrul Hasan Khan,
Director of Dhaka Medical College Hospital Brigadier General Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, Director of Bangla Academy, Shahida Khatun and General Secretary of Swadhinata Chikitsak Parishad (Swachip) Dr Iqbal Arslan among others, were present during the paying tributes.
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim said, “It was not comparable, which he did for the nation, He was not only a great physician but also a social worker. We are deeply shocked at the death of internationally reputed physician.”
Expressing deep sympathy to the bereaved family members of MR Khan, Rashed Khan Menon said, we lost a real patriot and an illustrious person. He will be buried at his family graveyard in Rasulpur of Satkhira Sadar.
Earlier, his first Namaz-e-Janaza was held at Central Hospital in city at 10:00am. His second Namaz-e-Janaza was held at BSMMU at 11:00am on Sunday.
Doctors, teachers, politicians, medical workers among others rushed to bid farewell to MR Khan.
MR Khan died from old age complications on Saturday afternoon at Central Hospital in Dhaka, an institution which he founded. He was 88.
He was suffering from cardiac complications for past few months and was admitted to the intensive care unit of the hospital, said Fariduddin Faruqui, Assistant Director of Central Hospital.
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