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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Tajul Hossain''' was a veteran of the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] and the first [[Health Secretary of Bangladesh]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=IUB pays tributes to its Trustee Freedom Fighters in Mujib Centenary |url=http://www.iub.edu.bd/articles/index/1650/IUB-pays-tributes-to-its-Trustee-Freedom-Fighters-in-Mujib-Centenary |access-date=2022-05-30 |website=www.iub.edu.bd}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LLBwNZRFoPMC&q=Dr+Tajul+Hossain |title=Bangladesh News |date=1973 |publisher=Press and Information Division, Bangladesh High Commission |pages=11 |language=en}}</ref> He was a Trustee Board member of [[Independent University, Bangladesh]].<ref name=":3" /><br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Hossain was born in 1920 in [[Comilla District]], British India.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s33jAAAAMAAJ&q=Dr+Tajul+Hossain |title=A Handbook of Oral History: Abstracts of Interviews Taken by the Oral History Project |date=1992 |publisher=Bangladesh National Museum |pages=96 |language=en}}</ref> He completed his medical studies in Kolkata and Dhaka in the early 1940s and was associated with [[M. N. Roy]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d1tMAQAAIAAJ&q=Dr+Tajul+Hossain |title=The Radical Humanist |publisher=Radical Humanist |year=2006 |pages=7 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Career ==<br />
Hossain did his post graduate studies at the New York University Medical Center.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Times |first=Bernard Weinraub Special to The New York |date=1974-02-01 |title=7 Births Every Minute: Bangladesh's Biggest Long‐Range Problem |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/01/archives/7-births-every-minute-bangladeshs-biggest-longrange-problem-major.html |access-date=2022-05-30 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><br />
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Hossain served in the Bangladesh Liberation War as an organizer.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Express |first=The Financial |title=IUB pays tribute to Trustee Freedom Fighters in Mujib Centenary |url=https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/education/iub-pays-tribute-to-trustee-freedom-fighters-in-mujib-centenary-1607938564 |access-date=2022-05-30 |website=The Financial Express |language=en}}</ref> <br />
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After the Independence of Bangladesh Hossain was appointed the First Health Secretary of the country.<ref name=":2" /> He talked to ''The New York Times'' about the importance of birth control in Bangladesh when there seven births in every minute in the country.<ref name=":1" /> He was a member of the Central Committee of Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League, the one party government that ruled Bangladesh in the early 1970s.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LLBwNZRFoPMC&q=Dr+Tajul+Hossain+health+secretary |title=Bangladesh News |date=1973 |publisher=Press and Information Division, Bangladesh High Commission |language=en}}</ref><br />
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