DHAKA, Feb 3, 2024 (BSS) - A free medical camp will be held tomorrow to provide treatment and medicine to nearly 1,000 distressed rural people marking the first death anniversary of Md Anwar Hossain, former managing director of Khulna Newsprint Mills.

More than twenty specialist physicians from Dhaka will provide treatment at Purba Darillah village under Nandail Upazila in Mymensigh from 10am to 4 pm, a press release said here today.

Doctors from the discipline of medicine, cardiology, nephrology, ENT, orthopedics, gynecology, surgery, dermatology, ophthalmology and pediatrics will volunteer the medical camp, said Assistant professor of Dhaka Medical Collage and Hospital (DMCH) Dr ASM Tanim Anwar, the younger son of late Hossain.

A Milad Mahfil will also be held after the Asr prayers at the late Hossain's ancestors' residence at the village.

Md Tanzim Anwar, the elder son of late Hossain, Special Correspondent of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) hoped that the free medical camp would support the cold-hit distress rural people especially the elderly and children.

Anwar Hossain, who also served as managing director of Pakshi Paper Mills, Khulna Hardboard Mills and Karnaphuli Rayon and Chemicals Limited, passed away in the capital on February 4, 2023 at the age of 78.