Like the dreaded knock, I was afraid that one of my friends would one day ask me to write something about him, a memorial.

The first time I saw Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury was in 2007, for a story in our weekend magazine in The Daily Star, on his Nagar Hospital on Mirpur Road, where anyone, no matter how poor could get medical care at subisidised costs

Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder and valiant freedom fighter Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury passed away at the Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital in the capital last night

Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder and valiant freedom fighter Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury died tonight at the Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital