Aminul Hasan, DGHS director (hospitals and clinics), on Wednesday said Regent Hospital was given the contract on condition that it get the licence renewed. Regent Hospital forwarded a bill of Tk 19.4 million to the health directorate after treating COVID-19 patients. The authorities shut down the headquarters and a branch of Regent Hospital on Jul 6 in Dhaka’s Uttara on charges of issuing fake COVID-19 test reports after the Rapid Action Battalion or RAB raided the Uttara branch. Responding to the allegations, Regent Hospital’s Public Relations Officer Tariq Shibli claimed that COVID-19 tests were carried out there free of cost. A relative of the patient told bdnews24.com over the phone that they had no complaints against the hospital in this matter.

Source: bd News24 July 08, 2020 16:41 UTC