Saima Wazed hit the headlines when she was elected the South East Asian regional director for the World Health Organization on November 1, 2023. She remained in this office till July 11, 2025. Who is she? the world asked. She is the only daughter of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and nuclear scientist M A Wazed Miah. Born on December 9, 1972, Putul, as she is called, organized the first South Asian conference on Autism in 2011 in Dhaka. She was the global autism advocate of the World Health Organization's (WHO) 25-member Expert Advisory Panel on mental health for 4 years in 2014.

Saima Wazed controversy

After her mother was ousted and forced to flee the country on August 5, 2024, Saima Wazed was implicated in a case related to falsifying her educational qualification. Ban

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