Swadhinata Chikitshak Parishad

SWACHIP was formed on 24 December 1993 as a counter to formation of Doctors' Association of Bangladesh (DAB), a right wing pro-BNP organisation.^[4] M A Qadri was made president and Mostofa Jalal Mohiuddin was the secretary. In 2003, in its national conference, AFM Ruhal Haque and M Iqbal Arslan were elected as president and secretary respectively. In 2015, M Iqbal Arslan was elected as president, while M A Aziz was elected as secretary general of the organisation.^[5][6][7] In 2022, Jamal Uddin Chowdhury was elected as president, while Kamrul Hasan Milon was elected as secretary general of the organisation.^[1]

According to SWACHIP's constitution, a committee is elected for two-year term by a national conference. But only four national conferences had been held since SWACHIP's inception.^[8] SWACHIP also has institutional and regional branches all over the country. 151 members form the central committee of SWACHIP.^[7] It has more than 13,000 members all over the country.^[9]