Staff Reporter :
The Ministry of Health on Sunday served a show-cause notice to the DG Health Abul Kalam Azad concurring the Directorate General of Health Services’s agreement with the Regent Hospital.
The notice, signed by the ministry’s deputy secretary Sharmin Akter Jahan, asked Abul Kalam Azad to
explain as to how the agreement with the Regent Hospital was signed to test coronavirus samples.
Rapid Action Battalion on July 7 and 8 sealed off the two Regent Group hospitals as they were operating without a valid licence, selling fake COVID-19 certificates and taking huge money for COVID-19 tests.
The Ministry of Health in the notice said that any agreement to treat and test COVID-19 patients could be signed with any hospital only upon a physical inspection of the hospital, scrutinising its permission for running hospital and inspection of the equipment, manpower and lab facilities.
“Before signing the agreement with the Regent Hospital which things were considered and if it was followed up that the hospital was maintaining the agreement rules,” said the letter.
It further asked the DG to explain the recent statement of DGHS which stated that the ‘agreement was signed upon directives from the high-ups of the health ministry.’
The DGHS in a statement on Saturday said that the agreement with the Regent Hospital was signed upon directives from the high-ups of the health ministry.
The statement also claimed that the DG of the DGHS did not know Regent Hospital Chairman Md Sahed before signing the agreement.
