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Published : 10 Jun 2026, 04:14 PM
Health Minister Sardar Sakhawat Husain has said the Ad-din Medical College Hospital administration’s response to the show cause notice from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on the unnatural deaths of six newborns is not satisfactory.
"The hospital authorities could not give any clear explanation in response to the show cause notice from the DGHS. Instead, they have given four to five pages of various unnecessary information that they did not do such a thing intentionally.
“What they have written is also unclear,” he told the media at the Secretariat on Wednesday afternoon.
Sakhawat also said a decision will be taken against them during a meeting on Wednesday during the recess in parliament.
He added that he could not make a statement on the matter now, but the decision would be announced once it had been taken.
After the investigation report on the death of six children was published on Jun 4, the DGHS issued a show cause notice to the hospital.
The notice asks the hospital to explain within three days why its license should not be revoked over the deaths of six newborns.
But Ad-din Hospital authorities asked the health agency for 48 hours to respond to the notice.
Accordingly, they were expected to respond to the notice by Tuesday.
The hospital authorities' lawyer Shishir Manir said on Sunday that each family will be given Tk 8 million as compensation for the deaths of the six newborns.
He claimed that this compensation was determined in a joint discussion between the families and the hospital authorities and that each family had already been given Tk 1 million.
When the health minister's attention was drawn to the compensation and the hospital's legal action, he said, "The government will appoint a lawyer over this incident and make proper recommendations regarding the report and its decision."
