Paracetamol Syrup Scam

A regret for life

Mukuly Begum literally struggled to take her thirteen-month-old daughter on her lap.

Drug admin official couldn't care less / Drug admin official couldn't care less

Abul Khair Chowdhury is a government official now serving as an assistant director of the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA). Intriguingly, police failed to get hold of him despite summon and arrest orders in the last two years.

JUSTICE DELAYED, NOT DENIED / JUSTICE DELAYED, NOT DENIED

Adflame's Paracetamol syrup Flammadol containing toxic chemical diethylene glycol was responsible for the deaths of a number of children between 1982 and 1992.

Deaths from Toxic Paracetamol / All records 'lost' from drug office

Documents available in court indicate clearly that the DGDA deliberately destroyed the cases. Meanwhile, people present during the 1992 drugs test recalled how proper steps regarding the matter had been bypassed since the very beginning.

Justice delayed, justice denied

The tests on the drugs were above suspicion; using newly installed gas chromatography equipment, they were conducted by the government's own drug testing laboratory under direct supervision of an expert consultant from the World Health Organisation (WHO). The results of subsequent independent testing -- undertaken in laboratories in the US and obtained by The Daily Star -- confirmed the results.

August 13, 2015
August 13, 2015

A regret for life

Mukuly Begum literally struggled to take her thirteen-month-old daughter on her lap.

August 7, 2014
August 7, 2014

Drug admin official couldn't care less

Abul Khair Chowdhury is a government official now serving as an assistant director of the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA). Intriguingly, police failed to get hold of him despite summon and arrest orders in the last two years.

July 23, 2014
July 23, 2014

JUSTICE DELAYED, NOT DENIED

Adflame's Paracetamol syrup Flammadol containing toxic chemical diethylene glycol was responsible for the deaths of a number of children between 1982 and 1992.

October 19, 2011
October 19, 2011

All records 'lost' from drug office

Documents available in court indicate clearly that the DGDA deliberately destroyed the cases. Meanwhile, people present during the 1992 drugs test recalled how proper steps regarding the matter had been bypassed since the very beginning.

November 10, 2009
November 10, 2009

Justice delayed, justice denied

The tests on the drugs were above suspicion; using newly installed gas chromatography equipment, they were conducted by the government's own drug testing laboratory under direct supervision of an expert consultant from the World Health Organisation (WHO). The results of subsequent independent testing -- undertaken in laboratories in the US and obtained by The Daily Star -- confirmed the results.