Take action against 2 former pro-VCs

A parliamentary committee yesterday suggested taking legal actions against two former pro-VCs of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University and other top officials finding their involvement in corruption and irregularities.
The parliamentary body also recommended realising Tk 7.84 crore from BSMMU former pro-VCs Prof MA Mannan and Prof Mohammad Tahir, its deputy registrar Dr Kazi Ebadullah, controller of examinations Mosleh Alam Chowdhury and others involved in purchasing medical equipments.
The sub-committee No 2, formed on June, 2009 to probe corruption and irregularities of BSMMU during 2001-08, yesterday placed its report before the parliamentary body on health ministry.
With parliamentary committee chairman Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim in the chair, the meeting held at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban endorsed a 246-page probe report of the sub-committee and made the recommendations.
The committee also recommended cancelling appointment of 313 staff including teachers, consultants and medical officers as they were appointed illegally during the time.
Of the 313, 42 are teachers while 61 consultants, 198 medical officers and 12 officers.
"The committee also suggested taking stern actions against the chairman, members and member-secretary of the selection board, chief of the central purchase committee and its member-secretary and members and depositing the money to the university fund after realising it," Selim, chief of the committee, told reporters.
The committee also asked the authority concerned to realise Tk 59.44 lakh from those who spent the money unlawfully on the occasion of the visit of the Saudi health minister to BSMMU in 2004.
The report says the Saudi minister did not come finally but the then authority showed expenses on the visit in the name of various purposes.
Even 2,076 staff, including officials and doctors, drew Tk 84.71 lakh illegally from the ultra-poor medical fund, the report adds.
According to BSMMU rules, no staff and official is entitled to receive grant from the fund, which helps treatment of the ultra poor people, it says.
On irregularities in recruitment at DMCH, the committee chief said they have asked the health ministry officials to take proper measures to this end.