[4] He resigned in July 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh after Regent Hospital was caught with fake COVID-19 tests.
[5][6] The directorate had blamed the Ministry of Health for pressuring it to provide a license to Regent Hospital.
[7] He was replaced by Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam.
[9] In October 2021, Justice K. M. Emrul Kayesh granted bail to Azad in a case filed over the fake tests by Regent Hospital.
[10] The hospital had been scamming patients from the National Institutes of Preventive and Social Medicine.