Unauthorised companies are smuggling a number of cardiac medical devices into the country and selling those to some of Dhaka’s top public and private hospitals without proper vetting, raising questions about health regulations and patient safety.

The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection will work to bring “more transparency” in the country’s medical device import sector, especially devices related to cardiac, Director General AHM Shafiquzzaman of the directorate said yesterday.

How could govt allow cardiac stent prices to go this high?

Mohiuddin Ahmed was extremely anxious. And it was just not because his 68-year-old father was undergoing a cardiac stent implantation surgery.