The government will purchase 19.37 million cycles of third-generation oral contraceptive pills at a cost of Tk 96.54 crore under its family planning programme.
Popular Pharmaceuticals, a local medicine manufacturer, will supply the pills.
The purchase proposal was approved at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase chaired by Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury on Thursday, November 12.
The pills will be purchased under a project to implement unfinished activities of the completed Fourth Health, Population and Nutrition Sector Programme.
-AJM