Staff Reporter :
A Supreme Court lawyer on Wednesday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking to make doctor’s prescription mandate for purchase/sale of antibiotics.
Barrister Sayedul Haque Suman submitted the petition as a public interest litigation, also praying to issue a rule to explain as to why the sale of antibiotics without prescription should not be declared illegal.
Health Secretary, Public Administration Secretary, Director General of Department of Health Services and
Deputy Commissioners of all 64 districts have been made respondents.
Barrister Suman told the reporters that the High Court may hear his petition today (Thursday).
He cited a senior doctor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University to say in the petition that antimicrobial resistance superbug could be responsible for up to 80 per cent deaths in the country’s biggest intensive care units.
Professor Sayedur Rahman, Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology, BSMMU, said that 400 patients out of approximately 900 died in 2018.
And out of those deaths, around 80 percent were attributed to a bacterial of fungal infection that was resistant to antibiotics, said Doctor Sayedur Rahman.
Barrister Suman annexed a report with the writ petition seeking necessary orders.
