Apollo Hospitals fined Tk1.6 million

A Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-led mobile court has raided Apollo Hospitals pharmacy in Gulshan, Dhaka, and unearthed contraband medicines. Illegal drugs worth about Tk1 million were seized from the pharmacy during Tuesday’s raid, Executive Magistrate Firoz Ahmed said. The RAB-run mobile court also fined the Apollo Hospitals authorities Tk1.6 million after seizing contraband medicines at its pharmacy which is run by the hospital. Firoz Ahmed said a RAB-1 team conducted the raid around 2:30pm. “We’ve already found some prohibited medicines,” he said two hours after the raid. Ahmed said that the raid was part of RAB’s regular drives. “The hospital authorities have been fined for keeping these medicines without government’s approval,” he added, according to a news agency.
- biplab