Expired medicine worth Tk 30.14 crore removed, destroyed in 11 months: DGDA

The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) today submitted a compliance report to the High Court, stating that the government has removed and destroyed expired medicine worth Tk 30.14 crore across the country from January to November this year.

Besides, Tk 7.26 crore has been fined and collected from the dishonest traders for storing, supplying and selling expired medicine through conducting mobile courts between January and October this year, DGDA said in the report.

Also, a total of 1,437 cases were filed with the mobile courts in connection with the incidents, the report added.

Deputy Attorney General Abdullah Al Mahmud Bashar placed the compliance report on behalf of DGDA to the HC bench of Md Khasruzzaman and Justice Md Mahmud Hassan Talukder during hearing a pending writ petition.

After examining the compliance report, the HC bench ordered DGDAto continue drives against storing, supplying and selling of expired medicine and to destroy those, and to submit another compliance report to the court in next three months.

Following the writ petition, another HC bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice KM Kamrul Kader on June 18 last year directed the government to confiscate all expired medicine from pharmacies across the country and destroy those.