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Regent’s Shahed not AL int’l body member


Published : 08 Jul 2020 10:20 PM | Updated : 07 Sep 2020 11:02 AM

Regent Group’s owner Md Shahed has never been a member of the International Affairs Sub-Committee of Bangladesh Awami League, the party said.

“Awami League President Sheikh Hasina did not approve any sub-committee yet. So, there is no existence of the International Affairs Sub-Committee now,” International Affairs Secretary of the ruling party Dr Shammi Ahmed told Bangladesh Post when asked.

Shahed’s link with the international affairs sub-committee has been reported by the media following the shutdown of his hospitals in Dhaka.

The government sealed off Regent Hospitals in Dhaka on Tuesday following its cheating with Covid19 patients. A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive sealed off Regent Group's head office and its hospital branches at Uttara and Mirpur on charge of issuing fake Covid-19 certificates and other misdeeds.

The Directorate General of Health Services in a separate order said all the activities of the hospitals were ordered closed following the Medical Practice & Private Clinic & Laboratories Regulation Ordinance 1982.

All patients have been transferred before the closure of the hospitals hermetically.
RAB Executive Magistrate Sarwoer Alam said a case has been filed against 17 people with Uttara West Police Station. The RAB also seized a car with a flag stand and sticker of the health department.

They suspected that the owner and chairman of the hospital Md Shahed was using the vehicle to mislead the law enforcement agencies, Sarwoer told reports.

Earlier on Monday, the RAB raided the Uttara and Mirpur branches of the hospital and detained eight people for interrogation. They also seized unauthorised testing kits from the hospital.

The hospital had made an agreement with the health directorate that it would treat Covid-19 patients for free.

But they were charging patients and submitting vouchers for reimbursement to the government, claiming that patients were being treated for free, the RAB magistrate said on Monday after the raid.