Dhaka: Bangladeshi prominent physician and National Professor Mohammad Rafi Khan, popularly known as MR Khan, died at the age of 88 at a hospital in Dhaka on Saturday afternoon.

MR Khan, regarded as father of Paediatrics in Bangladesh, breathed his last at about 4:25pm at Central Hospital in Dhaka.

MR Khan’s personal assistant SM Selim told NTV Online the country’s leading paediatric surgeon was suffering from several old age complications and undergoing treatment at intensive care unit of the hospital for the last 21 days.

His funeral prayer will be held at 10:00am on Sunday and he will be buried at his village in Satkhira.

Prof MR Khan was born on 1 August 1928 in Satkhira. He passed MBBS from Calcutta Medical College in 1952. He subsequently completed DCH, MRCP, FCPS, FRCP from London (1957), Edinburgh (1962), Bangladesh (1974) and Edinburgh (1978).  

MR Khan has served as physician and teacher in the field of child health for a half century in Bangladesh. He served as a professor in different medical colleges in Bangladesh such Rajshahi Medical College and Dhaka Medical College. He is the visiting professor of ICDDRB (Bangladesh), Women's medical college, Uttara, Dhaka. He made a strenuous effort in establishing Women's medical college, Uttara, Central Hospital, Dhanmondi and Nivedita Hospital . He has been appointed as National Professor since 2011.

He has written nine books most of which are famous in Indian Subcontinent for three decades. Such as ‘Practice of Paediatrics Medicine’, ‘An Essential Aid on Paediatrics Medicine’ and ‘Essence of Paediatrics’ with Prof. M. Ekhlasur Rahman.

MR Khan received Independence Award and Ekushey Padak.