BIRDEM, the Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders at Shahbag, Dhaka, Bangladesh, is a 650-bed multidisciplinary hospital complex of the Diabetic Association of Bangladesh. The hospital was established in 1980 with the financial support of Bangladesh.[1] In BIRDEM, 3,000 patients are treated in the Out Patients Department (OPD) every day. No other hospital in Bangladesh serves so many diabetes patients.

BIRDEM
BIRDEM Bangladesh
BIRDEM Bangladesh
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Geography
LocationShahbag, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Coordinates23°44.3′N 90°23.78′E / 23.7383°N 90.39633°E / 23.7383; 90.39633
Organisation
PatronMuhammad Ibrahim
Services
Public transit accessfor BIRDEM Shahbagh:  MRT Line 6  Shahbagh, for BIRDEM Segunbagicha:  MRT Line 6  Bangladesh Secretariat
History
Opened1980 (1980)
Links
Websitebirdembd.org
ListsHospitals in Bangladesh

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The Diabetic Association for Pakistan (later Bangladesh Diabetic Association) was formed under the leadership of national professor Muhammad Ibrahim in February 1956. He offered a ground floor room of his home in Segunbagicha, Dhaka, to be used by the association, and there he began outpatient services for diabetes. While Bangladesh was still part of Pakistan, the government granted the association land in Segunbagicha for a hospital. BIRDEM hospital was inaugurated in 1980 at Shahbagh. In 2013, BIRDEM-2 hospital was started in Segunbagicha.[2]

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  1. ^ "BIRDEM". Banglapedia. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  2. ^ বিশ্বের সবচেয়ে বড় হাসপাতাল [The largest hospital in the world]. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). 14 October 2017. Archived from the original on 14 October 2017.

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