The Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) and Swadhinata Chikitsak Parishad (SWACHIP) have demanded that a doctor be appointed director of the Central Medical Stores Depot (CMSD). Reports UNB.
The government on Friday replaced Brig Gen Shahidullah with Additional Secretary Abu Hena Morshed Zaman as CMSD director.
During Shahidulah’s stint, the face mask scam sent surfaced in which the CMSD supplier provided ordinary masks in packets labelled as N95 masks.
But BMA and SWACHIP said replacing Shahidullah with an official from the administration cadre on deputation was “worrisome”.
BMA President Mostafa Jalal Mohiuddin, General Secretary Md Ihteshamul Haque Chowdhury, SWACHIP President M Iqbal Arslan and Secretary General MA Aziz sent a letter to Public Administration Secretary Shaikh Yusuf Harun demanding withdrawal of the appointment order on Saturday.
A public servant from the administration cadre is never related with procurement of medical equipment, the leaders of the doctors’ associations said.
Only senior medical officers from the army have been holding the post, according to the letter. ♦
