Staff Reporter :
The directorate general of drug administration has withdrawn and destroyed date expired medicines from the market worth Tk 301.42 million of various drug companies from January to October this year by conducting mobile courts.
The drug administration has realized Tk 72.61 million as fine for marketing, preserving and selling
expired, unregistered and adulterated medicines by this time. A total of 1437 cases have been filed by the mobile courts against the accused persons and 57 persons were given imprisonment in different span of time for preserving and selling date expired and adulterated medicines.
Director general of the directorate general of drug administration, Major General Md Mahbubur Rahman, sent a report in the High Court in this regard complying with a earlier direction of the court.
According to the report, a total of 42 drug companies’ date expired medicines were found in the market. Among them, ACME Laboratories Limited has the most expired medicines in the market. The price of their destroyed medicines is Tk 56.48 million. Beximco Pharmaceuticals is following them by destroying expired medicines of Tk 54.20 million.
Incepta Pharmaceuticals is in third position by destroying expired medicines of Tk 34.63 million, Square Pharmaceuticals placed in the fourth position by destroying exprired medicines of Tk 29.68 million and Opsonin Pharmaceuticals is in fifth position by destroying medicines of Tk 27.50 million among the 42 companies.
The report was placed in the High Court Bench of Justice Md Khasruzzaman and Justice Md Mahmud Hassan Talukder on Monday.
Deputy attorney general ABM Abdullah Al Mahmud Bashar placed it on behalf of the drug administration.
After the court proceedings, Mr Bashar said that the court has directed the drug administration to submit a report in the court within three months stating the latest situation of their drives against expired and adulterated medicines in the market.
Monjur Mohammad Shahriar, deputy director of the directorate of national consumer rights protection (DNCRP), said in a program on June 10 last year that the DNCRP found expired medicines in 93 per cent of the pharmacies in the capital where it conducted drives over six months.
Later Mahfuzur Rahman Milon, executive director of Justice Watch Foundation, a human rights organization, filed a writ petition with the High Court on June 17, citing from reports published in some dailies over the issue.
Following the writ petition another High Court Bench on June 18 last year directed the government to confiscate all expired medicines from pharmacies across the country and to destroy those within a month.
The HC ordered the authorities to take legal action within the same period against those involved in storing, supplying and selling expired medicines.
Complying with the court order, the drug administration submitted a compliance report on November 19 last year and in continuation they again submitted a report on Monday.
According to the earlier report, the drug administration destroyed expired medicines of Tk 340.75 million of various drug companies from August to October last year. And the administration realized Tk 17.49 million as fine by conducting mobile courts for preserving expired and fake adulterated medicines by that time.
The directorate general of drug administration has withdrawn and destroyed date expired medicines from the market worth Tk 301.42 million of various drug companies from January to October this year by conducting mobile courts.
The drug administration has realized Tk 72.61 million as fine for marketing, preserving and selling
expired, unregistered and adulterated medicines by this time. A total of 1437 cases have been filed by the mobile courts against the accused persons and 57 persons were given imprisonment in different span of time for preserving and selling date expired and adulterated medicines.
Director general of the directorate general of drug administration, Major General Md Mahbubur Rahman, sent a report in the High Court in this regard complying with a earlier direction of the court.
According to the report, a total of 42 drug companies’ date expired medicines were found in the market. Among them, ACME Laboratories Limited has the most expired medicines in the market. The price of their destroyed medicines is Tk 56.48 million. Beximco Pharmaceuticals is following them by destroying expired medicines of Tk 54.20 million.
Incepta Pharmaceuticals is in third position by destroying expired medicines of Tk 34.63 million, Square Pharmaceuticals placed in the fourth position by destroying exprired medicines of Tk 29.68 million and Opsonin Pharmaceuticals is in fifth position by destroying medicines of Tk 27.50 million among the 42 companies.
The report was placed in the High Court Bench of Justice Md Khasruzzaman and Justice Md Mahmud Hassan Talukder on Monday.
Deputy attorney general ABM Abdullah Al Mahmud Bashar placed it on behalf of the drug administration.
After the court proceedings, Mr Bashar said that the court has directed the drug administration to submit a report in the court within three months stating the latest situation of their drives against expired and adulterated medicines in the market.
Monjur Mohammad Shahriar, deputy director of the directorate of national consumer rights protection (DNCRP), said in a program on June 10 last year that the DNCRP found expired medicines in 93 per cent of the pharmacies in the capital where it conducted drives over six months.
Later Mahfuzur Rahman Milon, executive director of Justice Watch Foundation, a human rights organization, filed a writ petition with the High Court on June 17, citing from reports published in some dailies over the issue.
Following the writ petition another High Court Bench on June 18 last year directed the government to confiscate all expired medicines from pharmacies across the country and to destroy those within a month.
The HC ordered the authorities to take legal action within the same period against those involved in storing, supplying and selling expired medicines.
Complying with the court order, the drug administration submitted a compliance report on November 19 last year and in continuation they again submitted a report on Monday.
According to the earlier report, the drug administration destroyed expired medicines of Tk 340.75 million of various drug companies from August to October last year. And the administration realized Tk 17.49 million as fine by conducting mobile courts for preserving expired and fake adulterated medicines by that time.
