Muhammad Ibrahim

Template:Infobox person Muhammad Ibrahim (Template:Langx; Template:Birth date – 6 September 1989) was a Bangladeshi physician. He established Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM), the diabetes health-care and research institute complex in 1980.<ref name=bpedia>Template:Cite book</ref> The Government of Bangladesh awarded him National Professor and the Independence Day Award in 1978.<ref name=indepen>Template:Cite web</ref>

Education

Ibrahim earned MBBS degree from Calcutta Medical College in 1938.<ref name=humanitarian/> He became MRCP in 1949. He was made a Fellow of College of Chest Physicians (FCCP) in 1950.<ref name=humanitarian>Template:Cite news</ref>

Career

Ibrahim established Diabetic Association of Pakistan (later Diabetic Association of Bangladesh) on 28 February 1956.<ref name=reformer>Template:Cite news</ref> He also founded Diabetic Association in Karachi and Lahore, West Pakistan, in 1964.<ref name=change>Template:Cite news</ref>

Ibrahim established the diabetes health-care and research institute complex, BIRDEM at Dhaka in 1980 where the out-patients centre of the Bangladesh Diabetic Association was shifted to. The institute is housed in two buildings, named the Ibrahim Memorial Diabetes Centre after his death in 1989.<ref name=change/> In recognition of its innovative, extensive and high quality service it was designated in 1982 as a "WHO-Collaborating Centre for Developing Community-oriented Programs for Prevention and Control of Diabetes." It is the first such centre in Asia.<ref name=change/> He established the Bangladesh Institute of Research and Training for Applied Nutrition (BIRTAN) and Rehabilitation and Vocational Training Centre (RVTC) in Dhaka to develop low-cost nutrition, and to give vocational training to poor and unemployed diabetics.<ref name=reformer/>

Ibrahim served as an adviser to the president, with the rank of minister in-charge of the Ministry of Health and Population Control, in the mid-1970s.<ref name=reformer/>

Ibrahim took part in drafting the government's first population control policy and setting up National Population Council.

Ibrahim was a founder fellow at the Islamic World Academy of Sciences, Amman, Jordan in 1986.<ref name=bpedia/>

Awards

• Independence Day Award (1979)
• Gold Medal by Begum Zebunnesa and Kazi Mahbubullah Trust (1981)
• Gold Medal by Mahbub Ali Khan Memorial Trust (1985)
• Gold Medal by Comilla Foundation, Comilla (1986)
• Gold Medal by Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah Memorial Trust (1989)
• Gold Medal by Islamic Foundation Bangladesh (1989)<ref name="humanitarian"/>

Personal life and legacy

Ibrahim's death anniversary is observed as the Diabetic Service Day to endorse and honor his contribution to socio-medicare services.<ref name=change/>