Emphasizing advancing the country’s medical science further, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her government will do whatever is necessary for the development of the field, reports state media agency BSS.



“We want to do everything necessary for education and higher education including sending teachers and other concerned abroad,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina added: “We’ll have to pursue all sorts of education so we can do more critical works like the successful operation of conjoined twins, Rabeya and Rukaya in our country.”
The prime minister was addressing the medical team comprising Bangladeshi and Hungarian doctors and other staff who carried out the operation of the conjoined twins at the CMH in Dhaka recently on Friday (Aug 16).
Sheikh Hasina said the Bangladeshi physicians gathered a huge experience through the surgery of conjoined twins. “Now we’ll have to focus on the further development of medical science by retaining this success,” she said.
Director-General of Armed Forces Medical Services Major General Md Fashiur Rahman, Consultant Surgeon General of DGMS Major General Mahbubur Rahman, Dr Habibe Milllat, MP, Dr Csapody, the leader of the Hungarian medical team and its members Dr Csoky and Dr Pataki and other physicians and staff who were engaged in the operation spoke at the function held at Ganabhaban here this evening.
The conjoined twins were separated after a successful 33-hour operation at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) on Aug 2.
The operation was carried out with the support of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Defenceless People Foundation (ADPF), an agency of the Hungarian government.
Earlier, the twins were sent to Hungary for treatment and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina bore their entire treatment cost at home and abroad.