Changing face in medicine: a new trend

Abstract

Despite all odds in society and lagging of women behind men in many sectors in Bangladesh, the country's girls are going ahead of the male counterparts in the medical education and health services. The first Bangladeshi woman physician, Zohra Begum Kazi (15 October 1912 7 November 2007), graduated (MBBS) in 1935 from Lady Hardinge Medical College for Women in Delhi. She ranked First Class First and was awarded the Viceroy of India's Medal. She came from Kazi family of Gopalpur in the Madaripur District what was in the Bengal. She has been called the Florence Nightingale of Dhaka. About 73 years later, Bangladeshi women started to outnumber men in admissions to medical colleges. According to official statistics female students make up around 60% of the enrolled medical students and the trend continues to grow stronger every year. During the last five years, Bangladesh produced female doctors in the same proportion.