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Directorate General of Nursing and Midwifery

department · partial (verified 2026-05-17)

Profile

Head
Moazzam Anwar Hossain Akand
Role
Director General (Additional Charge; Joint Secretary)
Annual budget
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Staff
19034
Established
1977
Legal basis
Established by Government Order No. P-II/1C-18/77/391 dated 14 May 1977, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh.

Actively recruiting (828 Senior Staff Nurse posts via BPSC, late 2025) and expanding in-service training capacity (320 batches for 9,600 nurses under the Tk 211.90 crore ECNEC-approved digitization project). The 2025-26 unified nursing admission cycle completed with results published 1 March 2026. DGNM oversees 7,230 licensed diploma midwives nationally, of whom 2,557 are deployed in government facilities and 400+ serve Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar. The directorate is coordinating with UNFPA toward a target of 5,000 additional midwifery posts. A Joint Secretary holds the Director General post in additional charge as of late 2025, indicating a leadership vacancy pending formal appointment.

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Provenance & notes

verification_status is 'partial' because: (1) annual_budget_bdt for DGNM as a standalone line item is not publicly disaggregated in FY2025-26 budget documents reviewed; (2) current Director General identity is unconfirmed with a primary source dated 2026 -- Wikipedia lists Siddika Akter (appointed 2020) but search results from late 2025 indicate a Joint Secretary (Moazzam Anwar Hossain Akand) is holding the post in additional charge; dgnm.gov.bd officer list page returned a certificate error and could not be directly verified; head_since is null for the same reason. (3) staff_count of 19,034 (17,797 nursing + 1,237 non-nursing) is the sanctioned post count from old.dgnm.gov.bd; actual filled positions as of 2026 are approximately 14,589 nursing and 829 non-nursing per the same source but the sanctioned figure is the schema-appropriate value. parent_id_ref is 'Health Services Division' (one of the two divisions of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) per the BPSC Senior Staff Nurse circular 2025 and the Ministry of Finance Health Services Division budget document; DGNM is not under the Medical Education and Family Welfare Division. The ECNEC digitization project (Tk 211.90 crore) is implemented by the Medical Education and Family Welfare Division on behalf of DGNM but does not change DGNM's administrative home. BNMC (Bangladesh Nursing and Midwifery Council Act 2016) is a separate regulatory body -- DGNM coordinates with BNMC but does not govern it; BNMC operates under its own statute.

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