Pharmacists shut shops to protest mobile court raid
Patients suffer in Dinajpur town
Patients at public and private hospitals here suffered as the Dinajpur unit of Bangladesh Druggist and Chemist Association enforced a wildcat strike yesterday.
The strike followed a mobile court raid on a pharmacy in the town. The team fined 'Sheba Pharmacy' at Charubabur More Tk30,000 for keeping date expired medicines of various companies.
However, it could not be confirmed as who led the mobile court as the officials at Dinajpur district administration were unaware about the raid. But sources in Rangpur Rab said that the mobile court team had come from Dhaka.
Within half an hour of the incident, the association enforced a strike suspending sale of all kinds of drugs.
Later, the protesters gathered at their local office in the town closing all shops and held an emergency meeting regarding the incident.
Till filing of this report in the evening, the meeting was going on with Gias Uddin Ahmed, president of the organisation, in the chair.
Contacted, Gias Uddin Ahmed said, storage of outdated drugs is common for any drug shops, but they never sale those to their customers.
We shall continue our strike until cancellation of the mobile court's decision, he said.
Meanwhile, relatives of the patients at various hospitals and clinics were seen looking frantically in the town for drugs but they found all the medicine shops shut.
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