Unable to join as DG DGHS, Robed Amin goes on leave

Since being relieved of his appointment as Director General (DG) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Dr Robed Amin has not been coming to the workplace, reports UNB.

On August 18, Dr Amin, a professor of medicine at Dhaka Medical College, was appointed as DG DGHS - the country's top public health post. He was unable however to take up the posting in the face of protests by the officials at the DGHS premises in Mohakhali, who never allowed him to enter his would-be office.

According to sources at DGHS, he had gone to the Ministry of Health a number of times, hoping for some resolution from there that could perhaps allow him to join his workplace. However, he was not allowed to enter.

Eventually on September 12, the post was given to someone else by the health authorities.