Mahmudur Rahman Choudhury (1 June 1928 – 24 June 1999)
[ also known as Major General MR Choudhury, was a medical scientist and physician from Bangladesh who was the founder Commandant of Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and Transfusion (AFIP&T). The Government of Bangladesh awarded him the ]Independence Day Award
The Independence Day Award ( bn, স্বাধীনতা পদক), also termed Independence Award ( bn, স্বাধীনতা পুরস্কার), Swadhinata Padak, and Swadhinata Puroskar, is the highest state award given by t ...
, the highest civilian honor in the country, in 1977. The institution Choudhury built up, the AFIP&T also received the same award as a center of excellence later in 1987.
Early life and career
Born on 1 June 1928, in Sylhet, Choudhury graduated from Calcutta Medical College
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in 1951, as a student of the University of Calcutta
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and obtained D. Bact. with distinction from the University of London
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in 1959. He was commissioned in the Pakistan Army Medical Corps in 1952. For his professional excellence as a junior major, Choudhury received a letter of commendation from the Commander in Chief and was honored with the civil award Tamgha-e-Quaide Azam. After the independence of Bangladesh Choudhury played the key role in the establishment of AFIP&T in 1976. He also organized the Bangladesh Society of Microbiologists the same year and was its founder president.[
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1928 births
1999 deaths
Bangladeshi military doctors
University of Calcutta alumni
Bangladesh Army generals
Bangladeshi pathologists
Recipients of the Independence Day Award