Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has refused to receive coronavirus testing kits produced by Gonoshasthaya Kendra.
Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder and trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury told this to reporters this afternoon.
The press conference was arranged after the DGDA 'declined' to accept the kits from a delegation of Gonoshasthaya.
Dr Zafrullah mentioned that the authorities refused to take the kits as those are not ‘approved’. “They said the kits were unapproved...but we want to give those to you (DGDA) so that you can check. We’re told yesterday that they (government representatives) would not come to receive those. So, we went there today,” he said.
Three scientists, including kit inventor Dr Bijon Kumar Shil, were denied entry to the DGDA, he alleged. “‘They didn’t accept our kits and instead asked us to return to Clinical Research Organization (CRO).”
On Saturday (April 25), Gonoshasthaya Kendra handed over kit samples to the representatives of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) and the federal agency of the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
No representatives from DGDA or the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare attended the program.
