icddr,b stops using oral saline produced by its staff

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) has instructed its hospitals and treatment centres to stop using glucose and rice-based saline obtained from the icddr,b Employees’ Multipurpose Cooperative Society. The decision has been taken by the icddr,b management, pending the cooperative's registration with the Bangladesh Directorate-General of Drug Administration, which regulates oral saline under the Drug Act of 1982, said a media release on Saturday. Employees’ Multipurpose Cooperative Society, an independent registered entity, is separately managed by icddr,b employees, according to a news agency.