Bangladesh, Dec. 13 -- The annual turnover of the country's pharmaceutical industry is now over Tk 200 billion. It may not take a long time for the industry to double its turnover the way the prices of drugs and medicines have been rising unabatedly.
Be it onion or medicine, it is none but the consumers who have to count the extra cost in case of price hike. Policymakers, producers, importers and sellers might blame each other for the rise in prices of any commodity, but the poor consumers are the ultimate sufferers.
All attention is now focussed on onion because of an abnormal rise in its prices. But the fact remains that this type of development does not happen always. In the absence of market monitoring and owing to some external and d...