Dhaka, May 9 -- The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has proposed a Tk 11.55-billion development project to replace and reconstruct the age-old and earthquake-prone infrastructure at Dhaka Medical College (DMC), much of which was developed in the 1950s and is now considered structurally unsafe.

The project aims to strengthen the institution as a leading medical education centre by improving its infrastructure to enhance the quality, sustainability and modern standards of medical teaching as well as to reinforce the overall academic environment, the Planning Commission (PC) officials said.

They said the health ministry sent the development project proposal (DPP) of the "Replacement and Reconstruction of Unusable Structures of Dhaka ...