Prof. Dr. Shahriar Hussain Chowdhury
Managing Director, Northeast Medical
Realizing the importance of Professional education and better health care services for community development, the people of greater Sylhet were striving hard to establish a medical college with a view to develop the existing health care system since the British Period. The government of Assam agreed to establish a Medical College at Sylhet and although the construction work of the Medical college and the hostel building started at Sylhet in 1934, the project was soon shifted to Guwahati due to the influence of some high official advisers.
The Assam government while under pressure announced an official gazette that a medical school would be established at Sylhet instead of college. After some time, the proposed building was converted to a hospital in 1936 which was later upgraded to cater for British and allied troops of the Burma front in the second world war. In the year 1948, the hospital was further upgraded and converted into a Medical School with appropriate teaching staff and residential accommodation in order to produce Licentiate Medical Faculty doctors (LMF).
Later on, in 1962 then the Pakistan government, while under pressure, decided to start a five years graduate course of study leading to the award of the MBBS degree. Inaugurated by the honourable speaker Alhaj Humayun Rashid Chowdhury, the Northeast Medical College Hospital was established in 1996 with the united effort of some special doctors and social workers in heart of the town of Sylhet to provide medical services to the community at an affordable cost.
Soon after the founder realized the need to establish a private medical college to meet the increasing demand of meritorious students and to fulfill the demand of the country for the specialized doctors, Northeast Medical Pvt Ltd. founded Northeast Medical College in
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