BM&DC Verification & Verified Digital Prescriptions

Who can legally prescribe in Bangladesh

Prescribing is a regulated act, not a clerical one. In Bangladesh, the authority to prescribe medicines is tied to registration with the Bangladesh Medical & Dental Council (BM&DC), the statutory body that registers practitioners and maintains the public register of who is qualified to practise. If a name is not on that register with valid, current registration, that person is not entitled to prescribe.

Registration is not a single uniform category. Broadly:

• Full medical and dental practitioners — doctors holding an MBBS (medicine) or BDS (dentistry) qualification and full BM&DC registration prescribe within their professional field.
• Limited or portable-card holders — medical assistants and other categories registered under a narrower scope may act only within the limits their registration defines. The boundary of what they can do is set by their registration type, not by personal preference.

The practical point for software is simple: a prescribing tool should make it easy to attach a real registration number to a real, registered identity — and should not let an unregistered or out-of-scope user issue prescriptions as though they were a registered doctor. That is exactly the boundary Prescriply enforces with roles and verification.

What a “verified” prescription means in Prescriply

“Verified” is a specific, narrow claim in Prescriply — and it is worth being precise about it. It happens in three steps:

1. Admin review. When you set up your account, you enter your BM&DC registration number. A Prescriply admin reviews that submission before deciding whether to approve it — a Verified badge is never granted automatically just because a number was typed in.
2. Verified badge. Once the admin approves the submission, your account is marked with a Verified badge. This signals to patients and to anyone reading your prescription that the prescribing doctor’s registration was reviewed and approved, not merely typed in.
3. Public authenticity link. Every prescription you issue carries a public link (and a scannable reference) that anyone — a patient at home, a pharmacist at the counter — can open to confirm the prescription was issued through Prescriply by a verified doctor.

Crucially, the authenticity link shows that the prescription is genuine and tied to a verified prescriber without exposing your private patient records or full chamber data. It answers one question well: “Did this prescription really come from this registered doctor through Prescriply?”

Why authenticity matters

Paper prescriptions are easy to copy, alter and fake. A handwritten pad can be photographed and reused; a single digit in a dose can be changed; a letterhead can be imitated. In a market where prescription-only medicines are sometimes dispensed loosely, a forged or altered prescription is a real safety problem — for the patient who takes the wrong drug, and for the doctor whose name is attached to something they never wrote.

A verifiable prescription changes the default. With Prescriply:

• A pharmacy can confirm the prescription is real before dispensing, instead of guessing from a signature.
• A patient can show family or a second doctor a link that proves the prescription came from a verified, registered practitioner.
• A doctor gains a clean, tamper-evident record of what was actually prescribed, which protects them if a forged version surfaces.

None of this requires the reader to install anything or hold an account — the link opens in any browser, which is what makes it useful at a real pharmacy counter. For the wider picture of how electronic prescriptions differ from paper, see paper vs digital prescriptions and our explainer on what an e-prescription is.

The doctor stays legally responsible for every Rx

Verification is a trust signal, not a transfer of liability. This distinction matters, so it should be stated plainly: having your BM&DC registration reviewed and approved does not reduce, share or outsource your professional and legal responsibility for what you prescribe. The drug, the dose, the interactions, the suitability for that patient — all of it remains the prescribing doctor’s duty, exactly as it is on a paper pad.

Prescriply’s design reinforces this rather than blurring it. Roles are scoped so accountability stays where the law puts it:

• Only the doctor prescribes. Assistant seats can register patients, record visits, set fees and run the serial and queue, but they cannot create or edit prescriptions. The Verified badge therefore always reflects the doctor who is answerable for the Rx.
• Per-doctor data isolation. Each doctor’s patients and prescriptions are kept separate, so a prescription is unambiguously attributed to the practitioner who issued it.
• Tamper-evident records. Because the issued prescription is stored and exposed through a fixed authenticity link, the doctor’s real instruction is the reference version if a forged copy ever appears.

We are deliberately measured about the legal framework here: registration categories and their exact scope are defined by BM&DC and the relevant medical and drug regulations, and you should rely on the council and your own professional guidance for the precise rules that apply to your registration — Prescriply does not query BM&DC’s register and cannot independently confirm a number against it. What Prescriply guarantees is narrower and concrete — that a verified prescription is tied to a registration number the doctor submitted and a Prescriply admin reviewed and approved, and that anyone can confirm that review took place. A patient who wants to check a number directly against the council’s own record can do so independently at the BM&DC verification portal (verify.bmdc.org.bd).

How to get verified on Prescriply

Getting set up takes a few minutes and is part of onboarding, on every plan including Free:

1. Start free and create your doctor account.
2. Enter your BM&DC registration number during onboarding.
3. A Prescriply admin reviews your submission; once it’s approved, your Verified badge is applied.
4. Begin prescribing — every Rx now carries its public authenticity link automatically.

Verification, the badge and the authenticity link are core trust features, so they are available on the Free plan (30 prescriptions in total, no monthly reset) as well as Pro and Clinic. The paid plans add unlimited prescriptions and assistant seats — they do not gate trust behind a paywall.

Sources & further reading

• Bangladesh Medical & Dental Council (BM&DC) — the statutory body that registers practitioners and defines who may prescribe.
• BM&DC public register (verify.bmdc.org.bd) — check a doctor’s registration directly against the council’s record.
• BM&DC Telemedicine Guidelines (July 2020, PDF) — the professional framework for identifying a registered prescriber in remote care.

Frequently asked questions

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