DHAKA: A mobile court has fined Tk 20 lakh to United Hospital for using out-of-date reagent, medicines and other anomalies.
Rapid Action Battalion conducted the raid at United Hospital in city’s Gulshan-2 area on Wednesday afternoon (March 21).
Senior officials of Health Directorate and Drug Administration were present during the raid led by RAB executive magistrate Sarwar Alam.
Sarwar Alam said the raid was conducted in the microbiology, histopathology, biochemistry, clinical pathology and Hematology laboratories of the hospital while evidence of using outdated reagent, used in the diagnosis, was found.
Moreover, some expired medicines were also found in the hospital pharmacy. The hospital authority has been fined Tk 20 lakh over the irregularities, he added.
BDST: 2133 HRS, MAR 21, 2018
AP