Swadhinata Chikitshak Parishad

Swadhinata Chikitshak Parishad aka SWACHIP is an organisation of pro-Awami League doctors of Bangladesh. Jamal Uddin Chowdhury is the president and Kamrul Hasan Milon is the incumbent general secretary of the organisation since 25 November 2022.

History

SWACHIP was formed on 24 December 1993 as a counter to formation of Doctors' Association of Bangladesh, a right wing pro-BNP organisation. M A Qadri was made president and Mostofa Jalal Mohiuddin was the secretary. In 2003, in its national conference, AFM Ruhal Haque and M Iqbal Arslan were elected as president and secretary respectively. In 2015, M Iqbal Arslan was elected as president, while M A Aziz was elected as secretary general of the organisation. In 2022, Jamal Uddin Chowdhury was elected as president, while Kamrul Hasan Milon was elected as secretary general of the organisation.

Organisation

According to SWACHIP's constitution, a committee is elected for two-year term by a national conference. But only four national conferences had been held since SWACHIP's inception. SWACHIP also has institutional and regional branches all over the country. 151 members form the central committee of SWACHIP. It has more than 13,000 members all over the country.