Md. Roni Ahmed Raju, Magura Correspondent:
The National Consumer Rights Protection Department has conducted a drive on the allegation of selling physician samples and expired medicines in Magura.
The drive found that the Abalpur Drug House in the city was selling physician samples and expired medicines, and the establishment was fined Tk 20,000.
Magistrate Sajal Ahmed of the National Consumer Rights Protection Department conducted the drive. At that time, he said that no kind of irregularities related to public health will be tolerated. Selling physician samples and marketing expired medicines is a punishable offense under the law. Such drives will continue in the public interest in the future.
The Consumer Rights Protection Department has urged the general public to check the validity and quality of medicines while buying them and inform the concerned authorities if any irregularities are noticed.