Abul Kalam Azad is a Bangladeshi doctor and who was the Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services during the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] He was a former additional director general of the Directorate General of Health Services. [2]
Azad was born in 1960 in Nilphamari District, East Pakistan, Pakistan. [3] He completed his MBBS at the Dhaka Medical College. [3]
Azad was additional director general of the Directorate General of Health Services from 2011 to 2016. [3] He founded Sandhani National Eye Donation Society. [3] He was the additional director general of administration at the Directorate General for Health Services. [3]
On 1 September 2016, Azad was appointed the Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services. [3] He replaced Professor Deen Mohd. Noorul Haq. [4] He resigned in July 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh after Regent Hospital was caught with fake COVID-19 tests. [5] Azad was criticized for the scam. [5] [6] The directorate had blamed the Ministry of Health for pressuring it to provide a license to Regent Hospital. [7] He was replaced by Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam. [8]
Azad was sued in the Regent Hospital scam case. [9] In October 2021, Justice K. M. Emrul Kayesh granted bail to Azad in a case filed over the fake tests by Regent Hospital. [10] The hospital had been scamming patients from the National Institutes of Preventive and Social Medicine. [11]
Abul Kalam Azad is a Bangladeshi doctor and who was the Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services during the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] He was a former additional director general of the Directorate General of Health Services. [2]
Azad was born in 1960 in Nilphamari District, East Pakistan, Pakistan. [3] He completed his MBBS at the Dhaka Medical College. [3]
Azad was additional director general of the Directorate General of Health Services from 2011 to 2016. [3] He founded Sandhani National Eye Donation Society. [3] He was the additional director general of administration at the Directorate General for Health Services. [3]
On 1 September 2016, Azad was appointed the Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services. [3] He replaced Professor Deen Mohd. Noorul Haq. [4] He resigned in July 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh after Regent Hospital was caught with fake COVID-19 tests. [5] Azad was criticized for the scam. [5] [6] The directorate had blamed the Ministry of Health for pressuring it to provide a license to Regent Hospital. [7] He was replaced by Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam. [8]
Azad was sued in the Regent Hospital scam case. [9] In October 2021, Justice K. M. Emrul Kayesh granted bail to Azad in a case filed over the fake tests by Regent Hospital. [10] The hospital had been scamming patients from the National Institutes of Preventive and Social Medicine. [11]