PM Hasina opens first burn institute

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated a 12-floor burn and plastic surgery institute, which will be able to treat more than 500 patients at a time.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the newly constructed Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute on Wednesday at Dhaka’s Chankharpul. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the newly constructed Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute on Wednesday at Dhaka’s Chankharpul. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

“It has been possible to establish the burn institute as the people of Bangladesh cast their votes to support the Awami League during the last parliamentary election,” Hasina said on Wednesday.

The institute named after Hasina is located next to the Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover in Dhaka’s Chankharpool area and adjacent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

It has 500 beds, 50 intensive care units and 12 operating theatres. A burn unit, a plastic surgery unit and an academic building will occupy the three blocks of the building.

In 1986, a burn unit was opened at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital with only six beds. Later, the number of beds increased to 50 in 2013.

The importance of the burn unit came into focus after the death of 127 people in a severe fire incident in Dhaka’s Nimtoli area in 2010. After the incident, more than 250 beds were added with the previous 50 beds.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the newly constructed Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute on Wednesday at Dhaka’s Chankharpul. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

The health ministry decided to name the institute after Hasina in recognition of her devotion to development of the burn and plastic surgery healthcare system.

On Apr 6, 2016, Hasina inaugurated the construction work by laying the foundation stone for the institute.

The burn and plastic surgery institute was constructed at an estimated cost of Tk 5.34 billion on 1.76 acres of land under the supervision of the Bangladesh Army.