
With the support of Oxford University, Bangladesh Medical University celebrated the World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day 2025 for the first time at the BMU in Dhaka on Monday.
The celebration featured various events, including rally, discussion, seminar, e-poster presentation, scientific paper presentation and debate, said a press release.
Professor Dr Md Sayedur Rahman, special assistant to chief adviser, was present as chief guest at the inaugural ceremony at the lecture hall of BMU’s Super Specialised Hospital, which was presided over by BMU vice-chancellor Professor Dr Md Shahinul Alam.
The theme of the day was ‘collaborative knowledge communication reflects the very essence of modern healthcare and education: collaborative, inclusive and built on taste’.
Professor Sayedur Rahman said that BMU would lead the way as a medical university, adding, ‘BMU’s research will be such that it will generate evidence.’
‘Guidelines will be prepared based on that evidence. BMU’s teachers, doctors and students will have to take themselves to the level of wisdom, which will elevate BMU to an international standard institution,’ he said.
Professor Shahinul Alam said that those who stand for truth and justice were few in number. ‘Still, we have to stay on the path of truth and justice and move on.’
Mentioning that most patients want to be included in decision-making, he added, ‘In evidence-based healthcare, patients are on one side and science is on the other. Here, doctors have to provide the best medical care through various combinations with their wisdom.’
He also said that it had been proven that evidence-based healthcare could reduce mortality rates and avoid unnecessary tests.
‘If evidence-based medicine is encouraged, the crisis of trust that has arisen between patients and doctors will be eliminated. Citizens’ interest in healthcare will also increase,’ he mentioned, adding, ‘This system is important for this reason.’
Everyone will know what medicine or test has been given to a patient in what condition, he noted.