ACC files case against Dr Sabrina, 6 others

The Anti-Corruption Commission had filed a case against seven people, including former registrar of the National Heart Institute and JKG Healthcare Chairperson Dr Sabrina Sharmin Hussai.

The others accused in the case include JKG Healthcare Managing Director Ariful Chowdhury and the former director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Mohammad Abul Kalam Azad.

ACC Assistant Director Afnan Jannat Kaya filed the case on Wednesday for their involvement in the JKG Healthcare scam where they issued fake Covid-19 test reports.

According to the case statement, Dr Sabrina, while working at the National Heart Institute, used her position to benefit financially through a business called JKG Healthcare without the authority's permission.

JKG Healthcare was an unregistered organisation and didn’t have any trade license. It didn’t even have any permission to collect samples for Covid-19 testing.

Besides, they also opened free Covid-19 sample collection booths without any approval from the Health Services Division. JKG Healthcare's employees went door-to-door to collect samples while charging them a fee, but did not send the collected Covid samples to proper labs and provided fake reports to at least 15,460 patients.