United Hospital fined Tk 20 lakh

Staff Correspondent: A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has fined the authority of the United Hospital in Dhaka’s Gulshan Tk 20 lakh on charges of keeping expired reagents, surgical thread, buying drugs from unauthorised agents and selling counterfeit drugs.

Speaking at a press conference held at the hospital on Wednesday noon after the drive, Executive Magistrate Sarwar Alam said they slapped the fines during a drive on the private hospital’s laboratory and pharmacy.

“We’ve found a huge volume of expired reagents in the laboratory. The reagents froze because those were not kept in right temperature. Almost all the reagents expired,” said Sarwar, who led the drive.

“Besides the reagents, we also found a large portion of the thread used in sewing wounds or during surgery had expired,” he said.


risingbd/Dhaka/March 21, 2018/Maksud/AI