In a landmark ruling, the High Court has ordered the government to fix the prices of all life-saving medicines produced in Bangladesh. Until 1993, the government regulated prices of 739 life-saving drugs. But a gazette that year restricted control to only 177 drugs—a move the court has now declared illegal following a petition by Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh. Lawyers argued that leaving pricing power with pharmaceutical companies forced ordinary citizens to buy essential medicines at inflated prices. The interim government has already formed a task force to draft a new list of life-saving medicines, and the court has instructed that prices of all drugs on that list be set by the government.
বাংলাদেশে তৈরি জীবনরক্ষাকারী সকল ওষুধের দাম সরকারকে ঠিক করে দিতে হবে। সোমবার (২৫ আগস্ট) বিচারপতি মো. রেজাউল হাসান ও বিচারপতি বিশ্বজিৎ দেবনাথের হাইকোর্ট বেঞ্চ এ রায় দিয়েছেন।
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