page_title: Gonoshasthaya Kendra
section_title: Formation
hierarchical_section_title: Gonoshasthaya Kendra / Formation
caption_attribution_description: English: Zafrullah Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi public health activist. He is the founder of Gonoshasthaya Kendra (meaning the People's Health Center in Bengali), a rural healthcare organisation. বাংলা: মোঃ জাফরুল্লাহ চৌধুরী একজন প্রখ্যাত বাংলাদেশী চিকিৎসক, রাজনৈতিক ব্যক্তিত্ব এবং মুক্তিযোদ্ধা। তিনি “গণস্বাস্থ্য কেন্দ্র” নামক স্বাস্থ্য বিষয়ক এনজিওর প্রতিষ্ঠাতা।
context_page_description: Gonoshasthaya Kendra is the first health center or hospital in independent Bangladesh. The organization earned highest national award of Bangladesh Government The Independence Day Award, 1977. In 1992, the hospital was also awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for its outstanding record of promotion of health and human development."
context_section_description: The commander of Sector 2 also known as K-Force Major General Khaled Mosharraf was operating in this area. He named it as Bangladesh Field Hospital. At first it was only 480-bed hospital to treat wounded freedom fighters.
  In the newly independent country Bangladesh, the government had objected to its name Bangladesh Field Hospital. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman proposed to change the name and its structure for allowance. Then the Gonoshasthaya Kendra name came up and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman suggested Zafrullah, "Ganasasthtya Kendra will not only provide treatment, but it will also have to work on health, agriculture and education."
  Zohra Begum, MA Rab, a joint secretary, and Lutfor Rahman donated five acres of land to the Gonoshasthaya Kendra from their family properties in Savar to build the hospital, while Sheikh Mujibur Rahman arranged a further 23 acres of land. Thus the hospital Gonoshasthaya Kendra began its journey in 1972.
  The hospital currently in 2018 employs 2,500 people, 40 percent of whom are women.
caption: Zafrullah Chowdhury, the founder of Gonoshasthaya Kendra
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