Staff Reporter :
A team of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) visited Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) office at Mohakhali in the capital on Sunday to get information and documents regarding the recent scams in the health sector.
ACC Director (Public Relation) Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee confirmed the matter and said; actually the ACC team visited the DGHS for collecting some documents.
A four-member ACC team led by its Deputy Director Abu Bakar Siddiqui entered the Health Bhaban at Mohakhali in the city at 12:45pm and came out of the building at about 3:30pm and talked to the its Director General Prof Abul Kalam Azad and sought the documents regarding the deal with Regent Hospital and other irregularities.
Abu Bakar Siddique later told journalists that they sought some documents related to Regent Hospital appearing at the DGHS in person. “But, they didn’t give us those documents. They rather said that they would send the records to the ACC office on Monday,” he said.
Earlier on July 15, ACC had driven to DGHS and collected the Regent Hospital licence and MoU (Memorandum of Undertaking) documents sign with DGHS for covid-19 test.
During the drive ACC team discussed with Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General (administration) of DGHS about Regent Hospitals documents. The team got some anomalies over the renew certificates, hospital related other departments and MoU’s documents.
The Regent hospital authorities duped nearly 6,000 patients out of Tk 20.1 million by issuing fake coronavirus tests reports even though it was supposed to provide free treatment for Covid-19. They later submitted bill Tk 19.6 million to the health directorate.
Shahed has allegedly embezzled billions by defrauding ordinary people through his microcredit and MLM business. Shahed amassed a fortune through multi-layered fraudulence, embezzlement of government funds, evading taxes as well as borrowing from banks using fake identities.
Meanwhile, the ACC questioned three officials of the Central Medical Stores Depot (CMSD) on Sunday as part of its probe into the purchase corruption of N95 mask and personal protective equipment (PPE).
