EDCL turns profitable: Samad Mridha | Others

DHAKA, Oct 6, 2025 (BSS) - Essential Drugs Company Limited (EDCL) Managing Director Md. A. Samad Mridha said EDCL has been turned into a profitable institution and in near future it will produce and supply all the medicines the public hospitals distribute free of cost to the patients. “The winds of change have already started blowing in EDCL, which was mired in irregularities, corruption and mismanagement of the previous government,” he told BSS in an interview today. He said EDCL, the only state-owned pharmaceutical manufacturing company, once stagnant institution, is on the path to success today. The winds of change are blowing with a combination of efficient management, transparent procurement policy and modern technology, he said. “EDCL is becoming an...