Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque has said that the pharmaceutical companies will collect date-expired medicines and destroy them by July 2.
The minister said this at a press conference at his ministry on Monday.
The minister said: "The pharmacies will collect date- expired medicines in marked boxes, and hand those over to the manufacturing companies for disposal."
On Sunday, pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies agreed to destroy expired medicines, in a meeting organized at the Directorate General of Drug Administration office.
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The move came after the High Court, on June 18, asked the government to take necessary action to stop the sale of date-expired medicines, and destroy or withdraw them from the market within 30 days.
Earlier, Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection Deputy Director Manjur Mohammad Sahriar, at an event in Dhaka, said that 93% of the pharmacies in Dhaka sell date-expired medicines.
The court also ordered forming an independent investigation committee to detect date-expired medicines, and identify their suppliers.
