Mirza Mazharul Islam (1 January 1927 – 11 October 2020) was a Bangladeshi surgeon and language movement veteran.

Life

Islam was born on 1 January 1927 in Agacaran village under Kalihati in

Tangail Tangail ( bn, টাঙ্গাইল, ), is a major city within the Dhaka Division in central Bangladesh. It sits on the bank of the Louhajang River, north-west of Dhaka, the nation's capital. It is considered to be the main urban area of ...

of the then

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. His father Helaluddin was an officer in a British company and mother Chhanda Khatun was a housewife. He was the chief consultant at the Department of Surgery in

BIRDEM BIRDEM, the Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders at Shahbag, Dhaka, Bangladesh, is a 600-bed multidisciplinary hospital complex of the Diabetic Association of Bangladesh. The hospital ...

. In recognition of his contribution to the Bengali language movement, the

government of Bangladesh The Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh ( bn, গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ সরকার — ) is the central executive government of Bangladesh. The government was constituted by the Con ...

awarded him the country's second highest civilian award

Ekushey Padak Ekushey Padak ( bn, একুশে পদক; lit. "Twentyfirst Award") is the second highest civilian award in Bangladesh, introduced in memory of the martyrs of the Bengali Language Movement of 1952. The award is given to recognize contribut ...

in 2018. Islam died from

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complications on 11 October 2020 at BIRDEM Hospital in

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...

Death

Mirza Mazharul Islam died from COVID-19 complications on 11 October 2020 at BIRDEM Hospital in Dhaka.

References

1927 births 2020 deaths People from Tangail District Dhaka Medical College alumni Surendranath College alumni Bengali language movement activists 20th-century surgeons Recipients of the Ekushey Padak Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh {{Bangladesh-bio-stub