Background
M. M. Rahman was born in the village of Harbang of Chakaria Upazila in the district of Cox"s Bazar on 1 April 1920.
M. M. Rahman was born in the village of Harbang of Chakaria Upazila in the district of Cox"s Bazar on 1 April 1920.
Later he served in the Pakistan Army and completed his M.B.B.S from Punjab Medical College in 1957.
He was the first Commanding Officer of Chittagong CMH. He passed his Matriculation with science from Cox’s Bazar and Bachelor of Medicine from Midford Medical School in 1940. He worked in Kolkata as a General Physician and got his Royal Commission from Dheradun in The British Expeditionary Forces as a Lieutenant. Although he was a doctor, he had fought in the Burma Front during the 2nd World War.
As a Major he was the first Indian Officer to be posted as Commanding Officer of Chittagong CMH before the independence of Pakistan.
As a result he was transferred to West Pakistan. He got arrested in 1971 during the War of Liberation of Bangladesh and saved three times by his colleagues who loved him as he was an honest and outspoken person.
After returning from Pakistan he was appointed as the Superintendent of Dhaka Medical College where he became successful in returning college into discipline. During the Sepoy Mutiny of November 1975, he was the first doctor to attend the victims of the outrage in Dhaka Medical College Hospital even after being posted there as an administrative person.
The rebel soldiers kept threatening him, but instead he brought his long unused Colonels Uniform and treated the injured military personnel brought there with other doctors, who were encouraged to see him working with them side by side.
Later he was appointed as Director Medical Services (Division of Medical Sciences) in the Bangladesh Army and successfully developed the newly formed Bangladesh army Medical Corps to a professional Unit. After his retirement, he was moved to his home village of Harbang and devoted his life in helping the poor. He was building a hospital there with what money he had, but couldn"t finish lieutenant
He died on 11 June 1994 from Myocardial Infraction.
He even treated some patients even after his death.