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UUB, Sylhet

Sylhet Women's Medical College Hospital, the first women medical college in the division, will formally launch its activities today through providing "one stop" service to the patients.

Foreign Adviser Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury will inaugurate the 250-bed hospital, financed by 90 entrepreneurs, of whom 41 are expatriate Bangladeshis.

Former Adviser to the Caretaker Government and National Professor Brigadier (retd) Dr Abdul Malik, VC of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Dr M Aminul Islam and DG of Health Department Dr M Shahjahan Biswas will be present on the occasion. Hospital sources said the medical college, situated in the city's Mirboxtula area, started its academic activities on July 15, 2006, with 51 female students in two batches.

The hospital, having 100 physicians including 31 expert doctors, will provide treatment facilities through modern equipment.