Kabir Humayun: A mobile court fined three private hospitals a total of Tk 27 lakh for using outdated reagents, surgical items and other irregularities.
Executive Magistrate Sarwoer Alam said the mobile court team of Rab-2 along with Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) and Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) launched the day-long drive in the three hospitals on Thursday, reports The Daily Star.
Anwar Khan Modern Hospital was fined Tk 8 lakh, Dhanmondi General and Kidney Hospital Ltd was fined Tk 9 lakh and Panorama Hospital Ltd Tk 10 lakh, he said.
The team found some expired reagents in the pathology lab and surgical items which expired in 2015 at Anwar Khan Modern Hospital, said Sarwoer Alam.
The official said the mobile-court team found expired medicines at the Operation theatre of Dhanmondi General and Kidney Hospital.
They also found to have faked signature of pathologist in the medical report, realise excess medical bill and for wrongly testing the blood-groups of patients, he added.
The team recovered a large number of expired medicines, surgical items and saline from the Operation theatre of Panorama Hospital in Dhanmondi.
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