By Dr. Shigeru Suganami M.D., Ph.D. (President of AMDA)
At the inauguration of Japan Bangladesh
Friendship Hospital (1993)
One noteworthy-yet-surprising fact about recent Bangladesh is its robust economic development. The newly-debuted international airport is a perfect example of its yearly 8% GDP growth which exceeds that of India’s 6%. The trademark smoggy skies are no longer there and people out in the streets looked confident than ever; all of which I failed to notice in my last visit as I headed directly to Cox’s Bazar for the Rohingya relief a year ago. This time, I made my five-day trip to see my colleagues in Dhaka in late April.
The Bangladeshi government is currently planning to relocate its administrative offices to Purbachal New Town in the suburb