National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR)

The history of Orthopaedic Service Programme in Bangladesh runs somewhat concurrently with the development of the Rehabilitation Institute and Hospital for the Disabled.With the War of Liberation, the new nation of Bangladesh was left with a great number of war injured. Although a few of the Freedom Fighters from among the wounded were taken by foreign countries for treatment, the great bulk of the wounded including the civilians had to be taken care of by the new nation itself. The... Read More

The history of Orthopaedic Service Programme in Bangladesh runs somewhat concurrently with the development of the Rehabilitation Institute and Hospital for the Disabled.
With the War of Liberation, the new nation of Bangladesh was left with a great number of war injured. Although a few of the Freedom Fighters from among the wounded were taken by foreign countries for treatment, the great bulk of the wounded including the civilians had to be taken care of by the new nation itself. The vast majority of these patients had orthopaedic problems, and at that time there was only one qualified Bangladesh Orthopaedist in the country and he left within a matter of months.
My offer to come and do what I could to help meet this need was accepted readily and cordially by the Ministry of Health. The Secretary, Ministry of Health, took me to the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Hospital out patient Building and asked me to start a 100-bedded Orthopaedic hospital and Limb Center, and to run it for one year. He gave the promise that the Government of Bangladesh would take over the financial responsibility of the hospital at the end of the time. In early June 972, the admitted into the Orthopaedic Unit of the Sher-E-Bangla Nagar Hospital. The name Sher-e-Bangla was soon to give way to Shaheed Suhrwardy Hospital of which the Orthopaedic Department remained a part being the in-patient Hospital in this Out-patient Building upto 1978. on 12th May, 78 the new Orthopaedic Hosptal Building with facilities for 400 patients started functioning.
In those days, we had to depend mostly on volunteer staff, and they came forward from all over the world.

The history of Orthopaedic Service Programme in Bangladesh runs somewhat concurrently with the development of the Rehabilitation Institute and Hospital for the Disabled.With the War of Liberation, the new nation of Bangladesh was left with a great number of war injured. Although a few of the Freedom Fighters from among the wounded were taken by foreign countries for treatment, the great bulk of the wounded including the civilians had to be taken care of by the new nation itself. The... Read More