Tajul Hossain

Tajul Hossain was a veteran of the Bangladesh Liberation War and the first Health Secretary of Bangladesh.^[1][2] He was a Trustee Board member of Independent University, Bangladesh.^[1]

Early life

Tajul Hossain was born in 1920 in Comilla District, British India.^[3] He completed his medical studies in Kolkata and Dhaka in the early 1940s and was associated with M. N. Roy.^[4][3]

Career

Tajul Hossain did his post graduate studies at the New York University Medical Center.^[5]

Tajul Hossain served in the Bangladesh Liberation War as an organizer.^[6]

After the Independence of Bangladesh Tajul Hossain was appointed the First Health Secretary of the country.^[6] He talked to The New York Times about the importance of birth control in Bangladesh when there seven births in every minute in the country.^[5] He was a member of the Central Committee of Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League, the one party government that ruled Bangladesh in the early 1970s.^[7]