The 5th International Nash Day 2022 was celebrated in Bangladesh on Thursday with various colorful events.
A colorful rally was organised by the Interventional Hepatology Division of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) with the presence of Vice-Chancellor Prof. Md. Sharfuddin Ahmed. Chief of the Interventional Hepatology Division Prof Mamun Al Mahtab Shwapnil was also present.
Later, a MoU was exchanged between the Interventional Hepatology Division and the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology of the University of Dhaka on joint research on the genetic study of fatty liver in the Hepatology Department of BSMMU.
Prof Shwapnil and chairman of the Dhaka University Clinical Pharmacology Prof Dr Abdur Rahman represented their departments.
The Forum for the Study of the Liver, Bangladesh organised an awareness programme in front of the National Museum. Baul music was performed by the members of Palli Baul Samaj Unnayan Sangstha. Besides, the artists of Path Natak organisation ‘Universal Theater’ also staged a Path Natak. Prof Shwapnil, who is also the chairman of the Forum for the Study of the Liver, was also present.
The Association for the Liver Diseases, Bangladesh organised a roundtable at the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU). President of the Association Prof Dr Selimur Rahman presided over the roundtable which was moderated by Prof Shwapnil, General Secretary of the Association.
General Secretary of Dhaka University Teachers Association Prof Md Nezamul Haq Bhuiyan, dean of the BSMMU’s faculty of medicine Prof Masuda Begum, dean of the Dhaka University’s pharmacy faculty Prof Sitesh Chandra Bachar, and General Secretary of Dhaka Reporters Unity Dr Nurul Islam Hasib were present, among others, at the roundtable.
Nash day was celebrated for the first time in 2018 with a joint statement signed by 150 liver experts from all over the world. That statement was released simultaneously from Washington, Paris and London on June 5.
Prof Shwapnil was the Bangladeshi liver expert signed in that document. Another Bangladeshi who signed the statement was Japanese expatriate liver specialist Dr. Sheikh Mohammad Fazle Akbar.
In its first year, International Nash Day was celebrated in 25 countries around the world. And five years later today it is being celebrated all over the world.
Apart from BSMMU, the NASH day rally was also brought out by the hepatology departments of the Kurmitola General Hospital and Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College.
