Health Minister Mohammad Nasim told parliament that 98 percent of the country's total demand is produced locally.

He said that due to the sincerity and liberal government of the government, medicines in Bangladesh became one of the industries. Currently, various types of medicines and medicines produced in the country are exported to 127 countries of the world. The amount of export of medicines and the number of countries is increasing gradually.In response to the question of Lutfa Taher, a member of the reserved seat in the Jatiya Sangsad question hour on Tuesday, the minister told the information.The Health Minister said that the guidelines of the World Health Organization's Good Manufacturing Pritis (GMP) guidelines are not properly followed and licenses of 86 pharmaceutical companies are temporarily suspended for the production of adulterated and inferior medicines and the license of 19 companies has been permanently canceled.