Saturday, October 31, 2026, marked an important day for both MVision AI and Ahsania Mission Cancer & General Hospital (AMCGH) in Uttara, Dhaka. Many clinicians, physicists and distinguished guests gathered at the hospital – and others online – to celebrate the launch and signing of AMCGH’s AI-assisted radiotherapy cooperation with MVision.
Getting to this point was a thorough but rewarding process. The hospital spent a year evaluating AI software before ultimately choosing MVision. It then worked to make the technology part of its daily clinical routine. The process was spearheaded by Dr. Nowshin Taslima Hossain, Dr. Jannatul Ferdause and Dr. Aditi Paul Chowdhury of AMCGH.
The launch event was a recognition of these efforts and an important moment for AI-assisted radiotherapy in Bangladesh.
MVision AI Founder and CEO Mahmudul Hasan attended the event and addressed the ceremony. Two chief guests joined the celebration:
- Dr. Mostafa Aziz Sumon, Director, National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital (NICRH)
- Dr. AFM Kamaluddin, Senior Consultant, Clinical Oncology, Labaid Cancer Hospital, and Scientific Secretary, Oncology Club Bangladesh
Other distinguished guests included:
- Prof. M. Saiful Huq, Director of Medical Physics, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
- Prof. Dr. M. A. Hai, Chairman, Oncology Club Bangladesh
AMCGH was represented by:
- Brig Gen Dr. Abdullah Al Mamun, Hospital Director
- Prof. Dr. AMM Shariful Alam, Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology
- Prof. Jahangir Alam, Head of the Department of Medical Physics
Seeing so many of Bangladesh’s leading cancer specialists in one room, and online, was humbling,” said Hasan. “It showed how much this work matters to the people who treat patients every day.”
Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah and the Founding of Ahsania Mission
The story of AMCGH starts with the founding of Ahsania Mission by Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah. Born in 1873 in Nalta, a village in what is now Satkhira district, Ahsanullah worked as a senior education official in Bengal. His core humanitarian work involved widening access to education for Muslim students and for poor students who couldn’t afford it.
Six years after he retired, he founded Ahsania Mission on March 15, 1935. The mission’s motto was concise and revealing: divine and humanitarian service. Though he died in 1965, his organization continued to grow. Today, Dhaka Ahsania Mission runs programs in education, health, agriculture and climate resilience. It also holds consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council and UNESCO.
AMCGH is one of the mission’s health institutions. It’s a non-profit hospital that aims to make good cancer care affordable in Bangladesh, including for patients who have very little money. Located in Uttara, in northern Dhaka, it offers cancer and general care under one roof. Its radiation oncology department has a linear accelerator, a CT simulator and a team of more than a dozen radiation oncologists.
Looking Ahead with AMCGH
As Mahmudul Hasan is from Bangladesh, the launch struck an emotional chord.
This is a dream come true,” he said. “I left Bangladesh 25 years ago. When I started MVision, I hoped for a day like this one, when our software would help cancer patients here. It took ten years to get to Bangladesh. Now it’s happening, and we’re excited about what it means for patients at AMCGH.”
MVision is proud to be AMCGH’s first AI partner and to support the mission behind it. However, the launch is a starting point. The real test will come when patients who could never have gone abroad for treatment start radiotherapy close to home.
Most likely, they will never know AI played a part. That may be the best measure of all.
