Daktar Bhai's anniversary of death today

Today is the second death anniversary of Dr Edric Baker, a New Zealander who served poor patients in Tangail for three decades.

To do so, the lifelong bachelor, locally known as “Daktar Bhai” (doctor brother), established Kailakuri Health Care Centre in 1996, which was financed by donors.

In 2015, the physician died at the age of 75.

Locals and the staff of the healthcare centre will place wreaths at his grave in Kailakuri village of Madhupur upazila in the morning after special prayers.

Baker came to Bangladesh in 1979 and joined a Christian mission hospital in Meherpur. Two years later, he moved to Kumudini Hospital in Mirzapur. He joined a clinic run by the Church of Bangladesh at Thanarbaid of Madhupur  upazila in 1983.