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Rid Pharma officials defy court order

Warrant issued for third time as they do not show up in court

Our Correspondent, Brahmanbaria
A Brahmanbaria court yesterday re-issued arrest warrant against five Rid Pharma officials for not showing up at the hearing of a case filed against them for producing toxic paracetamol syrup that claimed lives of 28 children.
Brahmanbaria District and Sessions Judge A F M Mustafa re-issued the arrest warrant against Rid's Managing Director Mizanur Rahman, its directors Sheuli Rahman, also wife of Mizanur, and Abdul Gani and pharmacists Mahbubul Islam and Enamul Haque.
The judge fixed September 30 for next hear-
ing of the case.
It was the third arrest warrant against the Rid Pharma officials. Earlier, the same court issued an arrest warrant against them on August 17 and also a Dhaka court on August 11. But the police failed to arrest any of the five Rid Pharma officials.
At least 28 children have died since July due to acute renal failure caused by Brahmanbaria-based Rid Pharma's toxic paracetamol syrup prompting the government to seal the company’s factory on July 22.
An official probe on July 29 found presence of toxic compound in Rid's syrup.
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Abdul Khayer Chowdhury, assistant director of Bangladesh Drug Administration of Comilla zone, filed a case with the Brahmanbaria court against the five officials on August 11.
Four more cases were filed in Dhaka, Sylhet, Comilla and Narayanganj.
Abdul Khayer told the court that Rid Pharma's paracetamol syrup caused death of children across the country and the company's all 12 drugs including vitamin syrups are of low quality.
The drugs are: Ridaplex (vitamin B-complex syrup), Temset (paracetamol suspension), T-zinc (zinc sulphate syrup). Bromosol (bromohaxin syrup), Resectil 20 (omiprazol capsule), Citapen Cafil (paracetamol tablet), Ridocin (ciprofloxacin tablet), Doxipac (doxicilin capsule), RidzoI (metronidazol tablet), Thouridec (fheofilin tablet), Banaltab DS (albendrazol tablet), and Ridaplex (vitamin B-complex capsule).
The Drug Administration said 405 bottles of Ridaplex and Temset were seized at different drug stores in rural areas of sadar upazila in Brahmanbaria and Burichang upazila of Comilla.
In 1992, at least 339 children died after taking toxic paracetamol syrup prompting the then government to cancel registrations of five pharmaceutical companies.