BACKGROUND OF BAPSA

The alarming situation due to the high rate of maternal mortality caused by unwanted pregnancies and septic abortion coupled with inadequate reproductive health care services to address them ultimately led a group of reputed medical practitioners and social workers to establish the Bangladesh Association for Prevention of Septic Abortion (BAPSA) in early 1982, under the leadership of a person no less than late Prof. Syeda Firoza Begum, a renowned Bangladeshi Gynaecologist of national and international repute. Essentially, non-governmental in nature, BAPSA is a non-political, non-profit and private social welfare organization, and its membership includes reputed persons from all over the country.