SHN has 23 commercial pharmacies, 27 dispensaries, and 10 indoor pharmacies that originally meant to sell to the general public in addition to visiting clients and admitted patients. In-house positioning, however, blocked the visibility of the pharmacies from the public historically.
In the above context, SHN, having a network of 60 clinics and 8 Digital Health Services in 28 districts, carry huge potentials to distribute quality and genuine medicines not only to visiting clients but also to the public who are being fooled with fake medicines by dishonest manufacturers and traders across the country. Taking this as a social responsibility, SHN has initiated the task of relocating its pharmacies outside the clinic buildings, where there is a scope, thereby creating access to quality medicines for the non-client general public.
Pharmaceutical drug adulteration is spreading in Bangladesh. An estimate published in a local reputed daily in 27 February 2022 suggested that the flow of fake medicines in the open market at any time could be around 2,500 crore taka. The consequential effect of that on human lives and suffering would be beyond any sum of money.