Fake Covid-19 Certificates: Legal notice seeks Tk 10 lakh for each person duped by Regent Hospital

A rights organisation yesterday served a legal notice on the authorities concerned asking them to give Tk 10 lakh as compensation to each of the victims of fake Covid-19 certificates issued by Regent Hospital.

Children Charity Bangladesh Foundation (CCBF) represented by its director Ishrat Hasan sent the legal notice through emails to health and home secretaries, director general of Directorate of Health Services (DGHS) and chairman and managing director of Regent Hospital, requesting them to make a list of the persons, who got fake certificates from the hospital and provide them with the compensation in 48 hours.

Barrister Md Abdul Halim, who served the legal notice on behalf of the organisation, urged the government respondents concerned to publish a list of the names of the hospitals and diagnostic centres that have legal licences to conduct Covid-19 tests.

In the legal notice, the organisation requested them to take necessary measures to monitor the activities of the hospitals and diagnostic centres the at upazila level, regarding the test and treatment for patients.

It also said appreciate legal action will be taken against the respondents if they don't take necessary measures to comply with the requirements mentioned in the legal notice in 48 hours.