Full Name: Dr. Capt. Mozibur Rahman Fakir (Retd.)

Affiliation: Bangladesh Awami League

Current Position: Deceased

Date of Birth: January 01, 1947

Date of Death: May 02, 2016

Place of Birth: Bangladesh

Home District: Mymensingh

Constituency: 148, Mymensingh-3

Term: Third (8th-2001, 9th-2008, 10th-2014)

Nationality: Bangladeshi

Profile:

Mozibur Rahman Fakir (01 January 1947 – 02 May 2016) is a Bangladeshi politician, physician, Former State Minister and former Member of Parliament represented Mymensingh-3 (Gouripur) constituency. He served as the state minister for Health and Family Welfare from 2009 to 2014 under the Awami League government.

Fakir was born in Gopalganj district where his father was a police officer. His father Mozaffar Ali Fakir was born in an aristocratic Muslim family at Kaltapara village of Gouripur Upazila of Mymensingh district and mother Shamsun Nahar was born in Tangail district. He passed SSC from Mymensingh Zilla School and HSC from Govt. Anandamohan College, Mymensingh and was admitted to Mymensingh Medical College (MMC) in 1965. As a dedicated freedom fighter, he left his MBBS final exam and actively participated in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. Fakir passed MBBS from MMC in 1972 after independence. Later, he joined as a doctor of the medical core of Bangladesh Army. He founded Nasima Nursing Home in Mymensingh city.

Fakir was in Malaysia on deputation from 1974 to 1978 while in the military. He voluntarily retired from the army in 1981 and later joined with Bangladesh Awami League politics. He served as the President of Gouripur Upazila Awami League of Mymensingh for almost two ears. In the Eighth National Parliament Election (2001), he was elected a Member of Parliament for the first time from the Mymensingh-3 constituency. As an opposition MP, he served as a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee for the Ministry of Science, Information and Communication Technology. After being elected for second term in the 2008 national election, he was made him the State Minister of Health and Family Welfare. Fakir, who was elected as a Member of Parliament in 2014 election for a third term, hit the news several times.

Fakir was the member of many professional bodies, like Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA), Shadinota Chikitshok parishad (Independence Physicians Association), Bangladesh Private Medical Practitioner’s Association, Bangaesh Red crescent Society, National Tuberculosis Program, etc.

Fakir died of cardiac arrest on May 2, 2016 at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital. He was 69 years old at the time of his death.

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