Published: 15 January 2015
Drugs are considered highly essential and sensitive consumer goods for saving human lives. Therefore, for such reasons high importance is given on regulation of drugs in every country. In Bangladesh, the Directorate of Drug Administration (DA) is responsible to regulate all functions relating to production, quality control and marketing of drugs. The main aims of this institution are to ensure availability of quality drugs in an affordable prices and ensure quality and efficacy of drugs produced locally and imported from abroad. At present, local manufacturers produce 97% drugs against demand. Thus, this sector is considered as most potential sector after garments sector whose average yearly growth has been 21.39%.
Recently, the government has taken some measures to strengthen DA’s capacities. They include increase of manpower in field offices and measures to UHconstruct central drug laboratory and its capacity building. Moreover, it has taken measures to implement directives given by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health to strengthen its operations to prevent flourish of fake and adulterated drugs, formation of an Ethics Committee as per the National Integrity Strategy 2013 and formation of an Innovation Team for bringing visible changes in its client service delivery.
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