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substandard private diagnostic centers often don’t possess the required qualifications to
perform the tests properly, which can result in incomplete or inaccurate test results be-
ing filed. Consequently, patients lose their confidence in the test results provided by the
sub-standard diagnostic centers. Seeing no other option, many resorts to going abroad
and paying huge sums of money, which causes a loss for the Bangladesh economy15.
During a visit to the Bangladesh Medical Association )BMA( market, EM Surgicals was
found to store antibiotic disks for diagnosis in a refrigerator setting temperature beyond
the recommended range in which such a product should be stored. This means that the
diagnosis with those discs may not be accurate. Several shops of the same market were
found selling expired insulin and reagents, namelyEM Surgicals, Bhuiya Surgicals, SA Sur-
gical, Midland, Lotus and Atlanta Medica.A RAB unit raided two pharmaceutical distrib-
utors in Shyamoli on November, 2017 and found them selling large quantities of expired
drugs and diagnostic reagents. None of them were stored at their proper temperatures,
which caused denaturation; the warehouses kept no record of where and when they were
manufactured.

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