Tk 5.2 cr Danish grant for production of safety syringes

Danish Ambassador in Dhaka Niels Severin Munk approved the grant, equivalent to Tk 5.2 crore, as part of the Danida Private Sector Development (PSD) Programme, said a Danish Embassy release.

The government recently adopted the "National Policy on Injection Safety" which needs that the reusable plastic syringes are replaced by auto-disable syringes to prevent reuse and unsafe injection practices, leading to the spread of blood-borne diseases, such as Hepatitis and HIV/Aids.

For the first time in Bangladesh, a facility for production of Auto-disable (AD) syringes for the immunization market and Reuse Prevention Feature (RPF) syringes for the curative market is being established as a joint venture between Emnio ApS, Denmark and Acme Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Bangladesh.