Unethical proceedings in pharmaceuticals business in Bangladesh
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2018-08-09Publisher
BRAC UniversityAuthor
Tazwar, MufradMetadata
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In Bangladesh pharmaceuticals business is considered as one of the booming business. This is one
of the best sectors that we can proud of. Approximately 257 licensed manufacturers are operating
their business where the total market size is 187,566 million, which is booming year to year.
Bangladesh has acquired GDP growth rate of 7.11% and 7.28% correspondingly because of this
pharmaceutical industry. The market share has been covered by most of the local pharmaceuticals.
This data shows the positive, the alluring pictures of pharmaceutical business. But every coin has
two sides. Fortunately, internship for GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceuticals industry assist me a lot to
know about some facts about their working criteria, their responsibilities, their logistics, their
supply as well as distribution. If you go through newspaper you can notice some news like in 2009,
24 children died of acute renal failure because of adulterated paracetamols made by a local
medicines company. A Physician from Dhaka medical collage prescribed Betnovate ointment to
Shahid Hossain from Munshigonj for his skin disease treatment. In it, symptom of that decease
has become intensified. These sorts of news discovered that falsified medicines are spreading
everywhere in Bangladesh which is harming general people like us. The research I have prepared
on consumer feedback about purchasing drugs from pharmaceutical store. Upraising the awareness
among consumers about counterfeit drugs. Testing of five thousand medicines by the government
of Bangladesh revealed that three hundred were either falsified or substandard quality which has
become a risky issue for people in this nation. There is a huge shortage of Lab expert in pharmacy
store, reluctance of proof, reluctance of protest retail stores. People should be aware of buying
medicines from stores, taking suggestions from experts from pharmacists when purchasing. This
is all about I tried to demonstrate all the problems that we are facing.