Health ministry names full-time project director for 15-hospital waste project

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has appointed Dr. Sayeed Al Mamun (EGD, Health Directorate) as full-time project director of the “Hospital-based medical waste management in 15 government hospitals (1st revised)” project. The appointment was made by direction of the ministry’s Planning Wing and published in the Bangladesh Gazette of 5 November 2026 under reference 45.00.0000.196.14.041.2019(Ask-3)-190, with the notification itself dated 8 October 2026.

The order is a personnel notification (প্রজ্ঞাপন) issued by the Planning Wing (Health-6 branch) of the Health Services Division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and it appears in Part II of the gazette — the part reserved for appointments, promotions, suspensions and retirement orders of the government. The charge is expressly a full-time one: Dr. Sayeed Al Mamun is appointed “as full-time project director” by direction, on the basis of a written Terms of Reference (ToR) attached to the notification, and the order takes effect subject to approval by the appropriate authority.

The project and the appointee

• Project: “Hospital-based medical waste management in 15 government hospitals (1st revised)”.
• Implementing agency: Directorate General of Health Services (স্বাস্থ্য অধিদপ্তর), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
• Appointee’s affiliation as recorded in the notice: EGD, Health Directorate.
• Nature of the post: full-time project director, appointed by direction (নির্দেশক্রমে).

The suffix “(1st revised)” in the project title places the appointment within an already amended work programme covering medical waste handling in 15 public hospitals; the notification itself does not name the hospitals covered.

Procurement, finance and reporting duties

The Terms of Reference set out eight obligations for the new director, listed in the gazette as clauses (K) to (R):

• implement all project works within the stipulated time and at the stipulated cost;
• carry out all procurement-related activities in compliance with the Public Procurement (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025 and the Public Procurement Rules, 2025;
• observe the existing rules and regulations on the exercise of financial powers;
• discharge store-management responsibilities, where such a duty exists;
• prepare all progress reports of the project and submit them regularly to the ministry, division, department or agency concerned;
• carry out monitoring and evaluation of implementation;
• implement decisions taken by the government from time to time; and
• pursue all other project-related activities.

Date, page and official reference

The notification is dated 23 Ashwin 1433 in the Bangla calendar and 8 October 2026, and it appears on page 1288 of the gazette issue of Thursday, 5 November 2026, in Part II, under the number 45.00.0000.196.14.041.2019(Ask-3)-190. The same page of the gazette carries a run of personnel notices from the Health Services Division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, reflecting the volume of posting, promotion and retirement orders moving through the directorate in a single issue.

The appointment matters because it puts a single named officer in charge of procurement, financial authority and reporting for a project whose subject is medical waste handling in 15 government hospitals. Under the gazette’s own terms, progress reports must reach the ministry regularly and procurement must follow the 2025 ordinance and rules, which gives the arrangement a clear line of accountability for money spent and for how waste is managed in those hospitals.

Source: Bangladesh Gazette, 5 November 2026, Part II, p. 1288 (official reference: 45.00.0000.196.14.041.2019(Ask-3)-190).