Bangladesh is training its first medical physicists — the people who make cancer treatment precise

Radiotherapy only helps if it is aimed exactly right, and that precision is a profession: the medical physicist. This week BRAC University in Dhaka launched the country's first two-year master's programme in medical physics, answering a growing national shortage. At the inauguration, Health Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Husain set out the plan it feeds into: eight cancer institutes, one in each division, radiotherapy expanded to district level, procurement under way for 17 linear accelerators and five robotic surgery machines, plus stronger HPV vaccination and breast-cancer screening. The through-line is access — treatment that reaches patients at grassroots level instead of only in the capital, delivered by specialists the country now trains itself.

SDG 3 · Good health and well-being — Mechanism: institutional program