Dhaka: Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammed Nasim on Wednesday asked the authority concerned to take the highest security measures to hold the admission test for MBBS and BDS courses.

"Like previous year, please take the highest transparency and cautionary measures to hold the MBBS and BDS admission tests scheduled to be held on October 6," he said.

Nasim was presiding over a meeting of examination overseeing committee comprising senior physicians and distinguished personalities at health ministry at secretariat here, said a press release.

Meanwhile, medical coaching centres have been closed from this month so that they could not prepare any fake question paper.

Secretary of the ministry Dr Sirajul Islam (Health Education Division), Vice-Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Professor Dr Kamrul Hasan Khan, Editor of the daily Samakal Golam Sarwar and columnist Syed Abul Maksud were present, among others.