Compath fined for using date-expired products
Staff Correspondent
A mobile court yesterday found serious irregularities and an unhygienic environment at Compath Limited, a notable diagnostic centre in the city, and fined the centre Tk 50,000. The mobile court, led by Magistrate Narayan Chandra Devnath, raided the Compath Limited on Elephant Road and found date-expired reagents, which are used for laboratory tests. The court also found date-expired surgical pipes. "We found that the lab technicians did not have any diploma on conducting the experiments and the director general of the health office did not certify them either," said a member of the mobile court. He also said the diagnostics centre did not have permission from the Atomic Energy Commission. Later the court raided Manin Chinese Restaurant and fined it Tk 10,000 for unhygienic condition.
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A mobile court makes a list of confiscated date-expired reagents used for lab tests at Compath Ltd, a diagnostic centre, on Elephant Road in Dhaka yesterday. PHOTO: STAR |
