DOT Desk: The Anti-Corruption Commission has identified procurement of unnecessary machines, pilferage of medicine from public hospitals forcing patients to buy medicines from market, trapping patients at public hospitals and taking to them private clinics, prescribing substandard drugs because of aggressive marketing as major corruptions in the health sector in Bangladesh, reports The New age. A team of the commission to deal with corruption in the Directorate General of Health Services submitted a report to the commission in the past week identifying eight sources of corruption in the health sector with 16 recommendations.
Commission secretary M Shamsul Arefin said that the report submitted by a three-member team.
led by its director Sayed Iqbal Hossain would be reviewed soon by the commission.
He said that the commission will send it to the government for the implementation of the recommendations.
A member of the tem said that they prepared the report talking to different officials, experts and campaigners of the sector in past four months.
The report observed that unnecessary machines supplied to hospital without technicians were getting dust and being destroyed remaining unused.
Identifying aggressive marketing policy of the pharmaceutical companies as a major source of corruption, the commission recommended allowing no medical promotion official to visit doctors at hospitals. Medical promotion officials manage doctors to prescribe substandard medicines, it observed.
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