The Health Ministry has cancelled IEDCR senior researcher Dr Mohammad Mushtuq Husain’s Officer on Special Duty (OSD) status, only a day after the original order was issued.
The ministry, in a statement on Monday, had attached Mushtuq to the health directorate as an OSD, moving him from his post as the chief scientific officer at the medical sociology department in the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), the government’s disease control wing.
But the ministry cancelled Dr Mushtuq’s OSD status yesterday through another statement published on their website.
In both cases, the ministry did not provide any explanation for their decisions.
But there has been a rumour circulating that the ministry made him an OSD because on Friday he expressed his solidarity with the student protesters demanding retake of medical and dental admission tests because of alleged question leak before the tests.
