Army Pharma Limited (BMTF) Medicine Product List in Bangladesh

Army Pharma Limited is the pharmaceutical arm of BMTF, and its range on Arogga is a short list of everyday tablets and capsules rather than a specialist portfolio. Pain relief, acid control, antibiotics, allergy, blood pressure and diabetes are all represented, mostly by a single brand each. The largest cluster sits on the Musculoskeletal Systems shelf.

Every item below is listed with the generic name behind it, because the brand names here give almost no clue to what the medicine is. Nothing on this page is a recommendation — a prescription or a pharmacist decides what you should take.

What the Range Covers

The list reads like a general pharmacy counter compressed into a dozen-odd items. Each therapeutic area gets one brand, occasionally two strengths of it, and the acid-control group is the only one with real depth. Nothing here is unusual or hard to source; what the brand offers is a domestic alternative at common strengths.

That shape has a practical consequence. If you were handed one of these names at a hospital counter, the medicine is likely to be an ordinary generic you could also recognise by its composition, and the composition is what to match when checking a prescription.

The Repeated Name Stem, and the Mix-Up It Causes

Several brands share three letters and nothing else

A striking number of these names carry the syllable Sol — at the start, in the middle, or at the end. Those brands are not related. Among them you will find a blood-pressure tablet, an antihistamine, a heart tablet, a stomach tablet and an antibiotic, and the shared letters say nothing about any of them.

What to check instead

Remembering a medicine as “the Sol one” is how the wrong box gets bought. Match three things against the prescription instead: the full brand name, the strength printed after it, and the dosage form. Every listing on this page carries all three in its title.

Pain, Fever and Inflammation

The paracetamol tablet

The brand’s most-viewed listing by a wide margin is Windol 500 Tablet 500mg, which is paracetamol. The name gives no hint of that, and paracetamol appears in many combination products, so check the pack before taking a second painkiller alongside it.

The anti-inflammatory tablets

Two of the list are anti-inflammatory rather than simple painkillers, and they belong to a class that is taken with food and generally for short courses. Both sit under Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, NSAIDs:

• Diclofix 50 Tablet 50mg — diclofenac sodium. The registered title carries a double space.
• ISP 10 Tablet 10mg — ketorolac tromethamine, which is prescribed for brief courses rather than ongoing use.

Anyone with stomach ulcers, kidney disease or asthma should ask a doctor before taking either, and neither belongs in a long-running daily routine without supervision.

The Muscle Relaxant Pair

The baclofen tablets come in a lower and a higher strength: Bfen 5 Tablet 5mg and Bfen 10 Tablet 10mg. Baclofen acts on the central nervous system rather than on the muscle directly, which is why it causes drowsiness in some people and why the dose is usually built up gradually.

Stopping it abruptly after a long course is not advised. If a dose is causing problems, that is a conversation with the prescriber rather than something to adjust at home.

Stomach Acid and Reflux

This is where the range goes deepest. All of these belong to the proton pump inhibitor family, taken before food rather than after it, and Arogga shelves the omeprazole and pantoprazole ones under PPI.

Omeprazole and pantoprazole

• Pansol 20 Tablet 20mg — pantoprazole sodium.
• Minisec 20 capsule 20mg — omeprazole, in the lower strength.
• Minisec 40 capsule 40mg — the same medicine at the higher strength.

The esomeprazole pair, and the word Mups

The remaining acid tablets are esomeprazole, a close relative of omeprazole: Maxora 20 Capsule 20mg and Maxora Mups 20 Tablet 20mg. Mups is a formulation term for a tablet made of many tiny coated pellets, which is why one is a capsule and the other a tablet at the same strength.

How long a course usually runs

These medicines are prescribed in courses rather than taken indefinitely, and a long unsupervised run has its own drawbacks. If heartburn keeps coming back after a course finishes, that is a reason to see a doctor rather than to repeat the box.

Antibiotics on the List

The two classes stocked

Arogga files both under Antimicrobial. Armycin 500 Tablet 500mg is ciprofloxacin, a quinolone, and Azisol 500 Tablet 500mg is azithromycin, a macrolide. The two are prescribed for different situations and are not alternatives to each other.

Finishing the course

An antibiotic is prescription-only for a reason, and stopping as soon as symptoms ease is what drives resistance. Take the full course as written, and never start a leftover box for a new illness.

Daily Long-Term Medicines

Blood pressure and heart

Two of the list are taken daily for the long term. Solsartin 50 Tablet 50mg is losartan potassium and Solcard 10 Tablet 10mg is amlodipine. Both appear across the Anti-Hypertensive shelf alongside the same molecules from other makers.

Allergy

Soldin 120 Tablet 120mg is fexofenadine hydrochloride, which Arogga lists under Non-Sedating Antihistamines. The class name describes how it behaves compared with older antihistamines rather than promising anything about it.

Diabetes

Umet 500 Tablet 500mg is metformin hydrochloride, the biguanide that most oral diabetes treatment starts from. It sits under Anti-Diabetic (Oral Hypoglycemic Drugs), where the other strengths and brands can be compared.

How to Find the Exact Army Pharma Medicine

Search the generic, not the brand

If a prescription names a molecule, searching that molecule on Arogga brings up every brand carrying it, this one included. Searching the brand name works only if you already know which brand you were given, and these names are not memorable.

The number in the title is the strength

Each title repeats the strength twice — once after the brand name and once with its unit at the end. Treat the unit version as the authoritative one, and match it digit for digit against the prescription.

Capsule and tablet are not interchangeable

The dosage form sits in every title, and in this range it varies even within one brand. Swapping a capsule for a tablet changes how quickly the medicine is released, even at an identical strength, so the word matters as much as the number does.

What Changes the Price

• Strength. The higher strength of a medicine is a separate listing with its own figure, and it rarely scales in proportion.
• Dosage form. Pellet-based tablets cost more to manufacture than plain capsules, even where the molecule inside is identical.
• Pack size. Medicine here is sold by strip or by box, and the unit in the listing decides what the figure refers to.
• Regulated ceilings. Many essential medicines in Bangladesh sit under a government maximum retail price, which limits how far any one brand can move.

Comparing two brands of the same molecule is the comparison worth making on a repeat prescription, and the generic name on each listing is what lets you line them up.

About Army Pharma Limited (BMTF)

Army Pharma Limited is a pharmaceutical manufacturer in Bangladesh operating under Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory Limited, abbreviated BMTF, a state-owned industrial enterprise run under the Bangladesh Army and based at Gazipur. BMTF operates several industrial units, of which pharmaceutical production is one.

The company manufactures finished human medicines in solid oral forms — tablets and capsules — across common therapeutic areas including analgesics, anti-inflammatories, proton pump inhibitors, antibiotics, antihistamines, cardiovascular medicines and oral antidiabetics. It also runs an animal health division alongside the human range.

Its products reach the market through pharmacy distribution in Bangladesh, in the same channels as the country’s larger private manufacturers, and its catalogue is built around widely prescribed generics rather than around proprietary formulations.

Buying Army Pharma Medicines Online in Bangladesh

Prescription items need a valid prescription uploaded at checkout, and Arogga’s pharmacists review it before an order is dispatched. That step exists for the antibiotics and the long-term medicines above in particular.

When a brand is unavailable, the Gastrointestinal System shelf and its neighbours list the same molecules from other manufacturers, which is the substitution a pharmacist would suggest anyway. Confirm any swap with the prescriber or the pharmacy rather than assuming it.

Check the brand name, the strength and the dosage form on the listing against the prescription before ordering. Those three fields together identify the medicine; the brand name alone does not.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What does BMTF mean in the brand name?

It stands for Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory Limited, the state-owned enterprise that Army Pharma Limited operates under. It appears in the brand record because the two are part of the same organisation.

2. Is Solsartin an Army Pharma medicine?

Yes. Solsartin is the company’s losartan potassium tablet, and it is listed on this brand page. Searching the generic name instead will show it alongside the other brands of the same molecule.

3. Why do several of these names start with Sol?

It is a naming habit rather than a shared ingredient. The brands carrying it belong to completely different drug classes, so the syllable is not a clue to what the medicine does.

4. Do these medicines need a prescription?

Most of them do, including the antibiotics, the muscle relaxant and the long-term cardiovascular and diabetes tablets. Upload the prescription at checkout and the pharmacy team will verify it before dispatch.

5. Can I swap one of these for another brand of the same medicine?

Often yes, but the decision belongs to the prescriber or the pharmacist rather than to the shopper. Match the generic name, the strength and the dosage form, then confirm the swap before taking it.

6. Army Pharma-র ওষুধের generic নাম কোথায় দেখব?

প্রতিটি পণ্যের পেজে generic নামটা আলাদা করে লেখা থাকে। brand নাম দেখে বোঝা যায় না কোন ওষুধ, তাই prescription-এর সঙ্গে মেলানোর সময় generic নাম আর strength দুটোই দেখে নিন।

7. একই ওষুধ অন্য কোম্পানির নিলে সমস্যা হবে?

সাধারণত generic এক হলে অসুবিধা হয় না, তবে সিদ্ধান্তটা ডাক্তার বা ফার্মাসিস্টের। strength আর dosage form — tablet না capsule — এ দুটো মিলছে কিনা আগে দেখুন, তারপর নিশ্চিত হয়ে নিন।