Kalam, Nasima questioned by DB found in JKG HEALTHCARE affairs
The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Law enforcement (DMP) has questioned newly resigned DGHS Director-Basic Professor Dr Abul Kalam Azad and Additional Director-General Professor Dr Nasima Sultana in connection with giving approval of coronavirus test to JKG HEALTHCARE.
The DB sources said a team of the detectives led by DB's deputy police commissioner Golam Mostofa Russel visited the DGHS at about 4:00pm on Wednesday where they questioned two top officials of the DGHS for over one hour.
The DB sources said they found some irregularities along the way of approval of coronavirus tests to the JKG Health Care.
Besides, they received lots of information after the arrest of six JKG HEALTHCARE officials like the CEO Ariful Chowdhury and his wife Dr Sabrina Arif.
Two leading officials of the DGHS were questioned in this regard.
DB's Joint Commissioner Mahbub Alam told reporters that they sought some records from the DGHS linked to offering approval of coronavirus tests to the JKG Health Care. Later, the DB visited the DGHS once they were named in. After collecting necessary data, both officials were questioned.
Through the police investigation about the JKG HEALTHCARE, it was exposed that the JKG Health Care gave coronavirus test reviews to 27,000 individuals. Of them, samples for coronavirus lab tests of 11,540 patients had been examined through the IEDCR, while the studies of rest 15,460 people were built on the JKG Health and wellbeing Care's laptops. The evidence was within the laptops seized from the JKG HEALTHCARE office.
Arif Chowdhury likewise told police that seven to eight personnel of the JKG HEALTHCARE were involved in making fake reports.
It really is learnt that the JKG Health Care's personnel used to visit the residences of folks who phoned on their hotline figures for collecting samples. Foreigners had been used to charged 100 US us dollars or Tk 8,500, as the Bangladeshi nationals had a need to pay the maximum Tk 5,000 per person although JKG HEALTHCARE was supposed to accumulate samples at cost free as a charitable organisation based on the approval of the Ministry of Health.
Following a incidents, the DGHS cancelled the JKG Wellbeing Care's approval of collecting samples upon June 24.
