If essential medicines remain outside effective price control, public health will depend less on policy -- and more on what patients can afford. For many Bangladeshis, that is not a sustainable equation.
Only through a combined approach -- strengthened technical capacity, strict regulation, and informed public awareness -- can we ensure that vaccines retain their full effectiveness from manufacturer to patient, and that preventable tragedies are avoided.
The interim government's initiative to launch chain pharmacies and the plan to distribute essential medicines through graduate pharmacists in hospitals could be a groundbreaking step in healthcare