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DATE-EXPIRED-MEDICINE (with picture)
Date-expired medicines to be destroyed by July 2: DG
RAJSHAHI, June 27, 2019 (BSS) – Director General of Directorate of Drug
Administration Major General Mahbubur Rahman said all the date-expired
medicines will be destroyed within July 2 next.
He revealed this while talking to the newsmen after opening ‘Desh Pharma’
as a model pharmacy at Shaheb Bazar Zero Point area in the city yesterday
evening as chief guest.
Gen Rahman said the drug administration has already started works of
destroying the date-expired medicines by the stipulated time. Time-fitting
measures have been taken against stocking and selling of outdated drugs.
“We have shared views with all the druggists and chemists in this regard,”
he said.
The pharmacies have been asked to collect the date-expired medicines and
return those to the respective companies. Afterwards, the companies will
destroy the drugs as per the directions and guidelines of the World Health
Organization. Soon after getting the destroying report the drug
administration will be monitoring the pharmacies regularly.
The director general inaugurated seven pharmacies as model medicine shops
in the city under Bangladesh Pharmacy Model Initiative Pilot Project.
Maj Gen Rahman said the drug administration has been generating awareness
among the public in general against using adulterated and outdated drugs.
As continuation of the effort the model pharmacies have been launched
throughout the country including Dhaka. People can get all types of medicines
from the shops easily, he added.
Drug Administration Director Ruhul Amin and its assistant directors Mirja
Anwarul Based, Ahsan Habib and Muhsinin Mahbub were present on the occasion.
BSS/AH/FI/ 1110 hrs