Fisons Bangladesh’s former managing director MD Abdul Wahed passes away

Mr Md Abdul Wahed, former managing director of the former British multinational pharmaceutical giant Fisons Bangladesh Ltd, died on Sunday.

He breathed his last at Square hospital due to old age complications.

Md Abdul Wahed was one of the few Pharmacy Graduates from the UK. He graduated from Queen’s University Belfast with a BParm in 1955.

He was one of the architects to enrich the standard of the country’s pharmaceutical industry after the independence of Bangladesh. He started his career after graduating in the UK with another British pharmaceutical Glaxo before returning to Bangladesh prior to liberation.

Abdul Wahed’s funeral prayers took place at the Gulshan Central Mosque (Azad Masjid) in Dhaka. His family members requested all to pray for his departed soul.