Professor Dr. Md. Sayedur Rahman, Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser with the rank of State Minister at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, has resigned from his position. A government notification issued on Tuesday night confirmed that the President accepted his resignation. According to the Cabinet Division’s circular, Dr. Rahman had been exercising executive authority equivalent to a State Minister within the interim government’s Health and Family Welfare Ministry. His resignation marks a change within the advisory team of the interim administration. The report notes that in November of the previous year, Chief Adviser Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus appointed three Special Assistants with the rank of State Minister. Dr. Rahman was one of those appointees.