Retired AMCH Professor Dr. Gaush Mohammed Safiqul Chowdhury passes away

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DIBRUGARH: Retired Professor of the Department of Surgery, Assam Medical College & Hospital (AMCH), Dr. Gaush Mohammed Safiqul Chowdhury passed away at AMCH on Sunday at 10pm. Dr Chowdhury was shifted to AMC&H from a private nursing home as a COVID patient on July 16 and since then he was undergoing COVID treatment, including plasma therapy. He was 71.

Dr GMS Chowdhury is survived by his son, Dr Zakaria Chowdhury, a pathologist, and daughter-in-law, besides his wife Dr Helina Rahman Chowdhury, former Professor of the Department of Pediatrics, AMC&H , and a host of family members.

He was born to Safiqul Haque Chowdhury, an advocate of Dibrugarh Bar, and Mahmuda Khatoon in 1949. He passed his HSLC examination from Dibrugarh Government Boys' Higher Secondary School in first division with highest marks in English in the State in 1965. He did his PU from Cotton College in first division with distinction. GMS Chowdhury pursued medical degree course and obtained MBBS degree from AMC&H. He joined AMC&H as a Registrar of the Department of Surgery in 1975. While working at Guwahati Medical College from 1979 to 1988, Dr Choudhury did his MS before coming back to AMC&H. He retired from the premier AMC&H as a professor in 2007.

His zanaza (last rite) prayer was performed at his Grahambazar residence maintaining COVID protocol strictly and he was later buried at the local Naliapool burial ground in presence of two of his family members on Monday under strict COVID guidelines.

Dr Choudhury was closely associated with several socio-religious organizations, including Dibrugarh Idgah Committee, Progressive Muslim Centre and Dibrugarh Islamic study Centre.

His death was widely condoled by the staff, employees, students and faculties of AMC&H in general and Principal Dr Hiranya Goswami, Superintendent Indra Chutia in particular, as well as members of Milan Jyoti Sangha, Zakat and Imdad Foundation and other organizations with whom Dr Chowdhury was closely associated during his lifetime.

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