At a press conference held in the conference room of the Ministry of Public Administration at the Secretariat on Thursday noon, Health Minister Sardar Sakhawat Hossain inaugurated this automated transfer program and disclosed this information.

The Ministry of Health has described the matter as a ‘groundbreaking step’. The minister said that this transfer was completed entirely on the basis of merit, competence and neutrality, without any kind of partisan consideration or lobbying. The transferred doctors will perform their assigned duties at the hospitals of their respective upazilas.