The Bangladeshi authorities have ordered the closure of a private hospital, after lawmakers found thousands of reports of fake Coronavirus analyzes by health authorities, officials said Tuesday.
The authorities requested the immediate closure of the operations of two branches of the Hospital Regent Hospital Limited located in the Uttara and Mirpur district of Dhaka, according to Health Ministry official Amin Al Hassan.
Al-Hassan said in a statement that the patients were also required to be transferred to other hospitals.
Judge Sarwer Alam said that members of the Police Rapid Action Battalion unit closed the two health facilities after they found that the hospital had issued more than 6,000 reports of fake tests of Corona and collected exorbitant fees from patients.
The report incorrectly indicated that some of the results of their analyzes were positive and negative.
Alam, who leads the campaign against wrongdoing, said that eight people were arrested, including a hospital director.
He explained that Regent Hospital, one of nine hospitals that the government initially indicated was dedicated to free treatment for coronary patients, had issued more than 10,000 reports since last March.
In total, Bangladesh has recorded 168,645 HIV cases and 2,151 deaths since the first case was diagnosed on March 8. The country reported the first death from the virus on the 18th of the same month.