Bangladesh-origin British MP Rupa Huq met Professor Muhammad Yunus at the Yunus Centre on Monday and discussed his social business initiatives since the end of his tenure as chief adviser of Bangladesh’s interim government.

Yunus briefed the UK MP on Grameen’s healthcare initiatives, including eyecare hospitals, primary healthcare clinics, a nursing college, 700-bed hospital projects and e-healthcare platform Shukhee.

The Labour Party MP also visited Shukhee and the Yunus Centre office, where she received brief presentations on their activities.

Shukhee is a social business and the largest e-healthcare platform in Bangladesh.

Professor M A Farmer, president of the British Institute of Technology, England, and Ohid Ahmed, a UK local politician and chartered accountant, and Lamiya Morshed, executive director of the Yunus Centre, was also present.