A K Khan Healthcare Trust Information

The A K Khan Healthcare Trust (AKKHT) is the philanthropic venture initiated by Mr. A K Shamsuddin Khan, the Chairman of the A K Khan & Co of the A.K. Khan Group of Companies, a leading business house in Bangladesh, Dr. Bimalangshu Dey, a Bone-marrow transplant specialist of the Massachusetts General Hospital of the Harvard medical School and Mr. Tanvir Raquib, an engineer by profession with a passion in healthcare. A K Khan Healthcare Trust (AKKHT) believes that development of healthcare facilities and workers is critical to the development of Bangladesh, the Trust decided to build the A K Khan Healthcare Center of Excellence to provide state-of-the-art treatment in Bangladesh in all disciplines of the medical field and has been working tirelessly for last three years to fulfill that vision. In 2008 this team played pivotal role in launching the International Socio-Scientific Conference on cancer which was followed by the first HPV vaccination program in Bangladesh which is also another first for the developing world. The cost of the vaccine was paid for by Grameen Phone, an affiliate of Telenor. This conference paved the way for the Bangladeshi oncologists to get advanced training in the institutions such as the Massachusetts General Hospital and Tata Memorial Hospital.