Mohammad Abdul Muhit

BNP · Sirajganj-6 · verified (verified 2026-05-17)

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Party: BNP
Constituency: Sirajganj-6
Terms: 1
Disclosed wealth: —
Criminal cases: 0
Education: MBBS, Dhaka Medical College; MSc Clinical Ophthalmology, University of Bristol; MSc Community Ophthalmology, University College London; PhD Public Health Ophthalmology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Cabinet role: State Minister for Health and Family Welfare; State Minister for Science and Technology; State Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology

Driving emergency health system reforms as State Minister for Health, including integrating grassroots health worker structures, cracking down on non-compliant private medical colleges, and leading Bangladesh's emergency measles-rubella vaccination response.

Recent activity

2026-05-11 statement At a Health Services Division and World Bank joint consultation in Dhaka, stated medicine prices cannot be increased at will and called for a balance between pharmaceutical industry sustainability and affordability for ordinary people. ↗
2026-05-07 statement At a CIRDAP policy dialogue on primary healthcare and family planning, announced plans to integrate fragmented grassroots health worker structures and recruit 100,000 additional workers to bring total to 140,000 under a unified framework. ↗
2026-04-20 constituency_visit Inaugurated the Measles-Rubella Vaccination Campaign 2026 at Shahjadpur Upazila Health Complex in his own constituency, with civil surgeon and upazila health officer present. Campaign targets 17.8 million children nationwide. ↗
2026-04-19 statement At a national seminar on health and nutrition at Dhaka Club, described the health system as 'beyond repair' due to flawed policies and corruption by previous governments, and warned that policy failures could result in preventable child deaths. ↗
2026-04-02 international Led a five-member Bangladesh delegation to the World Eye Conference in Bangkok (March 31 to April 2, organised by IAPB), presented a keynote paper and reaffirmed Bangladesh's commitment to eliminating preventable blindness. ↗
2026-03-28 statement Reviewed files of non-compliant private medical colleges at the health secretariat on a public holiday; warned institutions operating without BMDC approval would be shut down, describing them as 'factories producing fake doctors'. ↗
2026-03-07 constituency_visit Visited CSF Global and Alo Clinic in the Karail slum, Dhaka, to inspect healthcare initiatives run by the Child Sight Foundation, an organisation he founded. ↗
2026-02-26 constituency_visit Visited Sirajganj 250-bed General Hospital shortly after taking oath; noted infrastructure, staffing, and equipment shortages at Sirajganj Medical College and pledged to prioritise activation of the non-operational highway trauma centre. ↗

Provenance & notes

Winner vote count (171,508) per BSS primary report. Runner-up SM Saif Mustafiz (NCP) received 103,884 votes (BSS). A second search result gave slightly different figures (170,129 / 102,185); BSS contemporaneous report treated as authoritative. Total valid votes, vote share percentages, and margin_percent are null because only the top two candidates' counts appear in available sources and total turnout is unconfirmed -- do not impute. Constituency covers only Shahjadpur Upazila (per Wikipedia and EC). Dr Muhit is a first-time MP; contested the same seat in 2018 but lost. His father M. A. Matin was Deputy Prime Minister and held this seat previously (BNP). Holds three concurrent state ministerships (Health and Family Welfare; Science and Technology; Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology). wealth_disclosed_bdt and criminal_cases are null: EC affidavit data not publicly accessible at verification date -- per instructions, EC-only sourcing required and no figures are imputed.

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