The producers and sellers of fake and substandard medicines, deceiving patients and even killing them, are getting away with the heinous crimes, discussants said at a seminar on Saturday.
They demanded capital punishment for the producers and sellers of fake and substandard medicines as they said their crimes are not less grave than assailants [who make attacks for killing].
Debate for Democracy and ATN Bangla organised the seminar at the ATN Bangla auditorium.
Speaking as the chief guest, Consumers Association of Bangladesh president Ghulam Rahman said that producers and sellers of fake and substandard medicines sometimes get arrested but they resume their activities after they are released.
‘The capital punishment for such unscrupulous people, who play with the life of patients, is a timely demand,’ he said.
He regretted that while people in Bangladesh were concerned about halal foods, they were not similarly concerned about halal practice.
Drug Administration’s former director general Major General Mustafizur Rahman said that intake of fake and substandard medicines was not only ineffective for a patient but also was harmful for them due to chemical substances used in the medicines.
‘A zero tolerance policy should be taken against fake and substandard medicines,’ he observed.
He further noted that the global reputation of Bangladeshi medicines was being ruined due to the fake and substandard medicines.
‘About five per cent medicines in the market are fake,’ said Mustafizur, adding that the proposed Drug Act 2016 which stipulated punishment for the sale of fake and substandard medicines should be enacted soon.
ATN Bangla chairman Mahfuzur Rahman proposed for mandatory barcode use in the strips of medicines to stop counterfeit medicines.
Debate for Democracy chairman Hasan Ahmed Chowdhury, too, has demanded provisions of stern punishment including death penalty and life term imprisonment for those who produce and sell fake and substandard medicines.
Source: newagebd.net, Staff, June 2, 2019
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