Control cardiac ring price :
According to a newspaper report, the international market price of each BMS cardiac ring (stent) is $ 70 to 120 (equivalent to Tk 5,600 to Tk 9,600). Another report said that a drug-eluding coronary stent called PROMUS Element (DSE) has an import price of Tk 23,000. The same stents are sold at around Tk 1,50,000 at hospitals in the country.
The country’s drug regulator formed a committee on April 18 to keep the prices between Tk 25,000 to Tk 50,000. There is no duty on stent import in Bangladesh. Why, then, do we have to pay Tk 1,30,000 for stents that cost only Tk 5,600 in the international market? The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection must intervene to ensure importers follow the price regulations.
Md Ashraf Hossain
Dhaka.
According to a newspaper report, the international market price of each BMS cardiac ring (stent) is $ 70 to 120 (equivalent to Tk 5,600 to Tk 9,600). Another report said that a drug-eluding coronary stent called PROMUS Element (DSE) has an import price of Tk 23,000. The same stents are sold at around Tk 1,50,000 at hospitals in the country.
The country’s drug regulator formed a committee on April 18 to keep the prices between Tk 25,000 to Tk 50,000. There is no duty on stent import in Bangladesh. Why, then, do we have to pay Tk 1,30,000 for stents that cost only Tk 5,600 in the international market? The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection must intervene to ensure importers follow the price regulations.
Md Ashraf Hossain
Dhaka.
