Director General (DG) at the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Professor Dr Abul Kalam Azad has resigned. Health Services Division Secretary Md Abdul Mannan confirmed the matter to media on Tuesday (Jul 21) evening, saying Professor Dr Abul Kalam Azad has submitted his resignation letter to the Public Administration Ministry.
Meanwhile, numerous incidents of mismanagement and irregularities in the health sector got exposed when physicians of some government hospitals, including Mugda General Hospital, complained of receiving low-quality masks and protective equipment.
Then issuance of fake Covid-19 certificates by some hospitals triggered huge criticisms at home and abraod.
The scandal came to light with a drive at Regent Hospitals on Jul 6 and the Regent Group head office along with its hospitals was subsequently sealed off.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Regent Hospital chairman Mohammad Shahed from Komorpur border in Debhata upazila of Satkhira district on Jul 15 on charge of issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.
On Jun 23, police arrested six people, including JKG Healthcare’s chairman Dr Sabrina Sharmin Hussain, from the JKG Healthcare office of Confidence Tower of Gulshan in connection with a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.
Later, on Monday night, RAB arrested the managing director of Shahabuddin Medical College Hospital (SMCH) Faisal Al Islam from a local residential hotel in the city's Gulshan area on charge of fraudulence and forging Covid-19 test reports. RAB made the arrest after they found various irregularities, including unauthorised kits for Covid-19 test, providing fake test reports and having expired medicines at SMCH.
