Swadhinata Chikitshak Parishad

Swadhinata Chikitshak Parishad (স্বাধীনতা চিকিৎসক পরিষদ) aka SWACHIP is an organisation of pro-Awami League doctors of Bangladesh. Dr. Jamal Uddin Chowdhury is the president and Prof Dr. Kamrul Hasan Milon is the incumbent general secretary of the organisation since 25th November, 2022.

History
SWACHIP was formed on 24 December 1993 as a retaliation to formation of Doctors' Association of Bangladesh (DAB), a pro-BNP organisation. Prof. M A Qadri was made president and Mostofa Jalal Mohiuddin was the secretary. In 2003, in its national conference Prof. AFM Ruhal Haque and Prof. M Iqbal Arslan was elected as president and secretary respectively. In 2015, M Iqbal Arslan was electes as president while M A Aziz was elected as secretary general of the organisation. In 2022, Dr. Jamal Uddin Chowdhury was elected as president while Prof Dr. Kamrul Hasan Milon was elected as secretary general of the organisation.

Organisation
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. SWACHIP also has institutional and regional branches all over the country. 151 members form the central committee of SWACHIP. It has more than 13000 members all over the country.