Nurunnahar Fatema Begum

Mittwoch, 19. September 1962

Brigadier General Professor Nurunnahar Fatema Begum (born in 19 September 1962) is the first ever Paediatric Cardiologist of Bangladesh and a Brigadier General under the Bangladesh Army. In 2019, she was awarded both the Independence Day Award (highest state award) and the Shena Bahini Podok (Peace time award of the Bangladesh Army) for her irreplaceable contribution to the field of Paediatric medicine. She single-handedly established the concept of Congenital cardiac intervention in Bangladesh.