Bangladesh, Nov. 22 -- Selling date-expired drugs that too by renowned drug stores in the capital did cause a stir some days ago. While spurious drugs are already a cause of worry in the country's healthcare sector, the latest shocker is too upsetting to spare any confidence for the consumers while buying medicines-often for critically ailing patients at high and even unaffordable prices.
Fining and sealing the stores are barely the most effective moves as these are periodic and infrequent in nature. Such occasional drives have done very little to curb criminalities so often encountered in market practices. What indeed is most distressing is that if the drug stores including some major ones in the capital itself indulge in the practice of ...