Staff Reporter :A Mobile Court of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) fined Labaid Hospital authority Tk 10 lakh for keeping and selling unauthorized medicine.During the drive, the force also seized unauthorized foreign made medicine worth Tk 5 lakh on Sunday night.RAB mobile court executive magistrate Firoz Ahmed said that 26 types of drugs, including antibiotics and a wide variety of injections, were seized at a few-hour long drive in the Labaid Hospital in Dhanmondi. He said that the poor quality unauthorized drugs imported in the name of foreign drugs are not tested and approved by the Department of Drug Administration.Besides, the magistrate said, “Nazrul Islam, an Assistant of Professor Ali Hussein, the National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital at Labaid Diagnostic Center has been cheating people by selling a kind of mixer brought from India at high prices filled with empty bottles. For this, he has been fined Tk 5 lakh.Earlier, the mobile court had fined several renowned pharmacies, including Large Pharma, Apollo Pharma, for storing and selling unauthorized, counterfeit and import-banned medicine.Saifur Rahman Lenin, Assistant General Manager (Communication) of Labaid Hospital, said that most of the seizure drugs were made in the country.
