Aastha FAQ

'Aastha' - a Patient Support Program (PSP) of Roche Bangladesh, through which a small effort to support you during this difficult time in your life. 'Aastha' helps patients afford Roche's innovative medicines by making treatment more affordable.  

To know more about 'Aastha' you can email at [email protected] or to talk call at +8801730361661 9:00 am to 8:00 pm (Saturday to Thursday) or check our website.

The program will be reviewed on an annual basis. 

If the program is suddenly closed, Aastha will stop enrolling new patients, but existing patients will continue to collaborate up to certain time.

If you are receiving treatment from a registered doctor in Bangladesh and have been prescribed certain medications by the doctor, you can participate in Aastha PSP.

Registration of patient in 'Aastha' PSP will be done only through successful online registration and upload of signed Consent Form and prescription.

Consent Form can be downloaded from www.aastha-psp.com.bd or Roche Bangladesh website. You can fill it out by visiting the patient support representative or after filling the form you can upload it while registering on the Aastha website or send it through electronic media/courier.

After successful registration in 'Aastha' PSP you will receive an SMS (message) with profile name and password.

Patients must be registered two days before receiving free of cost (FOC) medicine. 

Yes, patients treated with existing medicines in PSP can join the program immediately with proper certificates and documents.

If there is no activity in the online account for more than 6 months, the account will be suspended. In this case the patient support representative should be contacted to reactivate the account and the medicines previously purchased by the patient will not be considered.

Yes, you can definitely re-join in the trust program. In this case you need to contact our representative and resubmit the signed Consent Form and prescription.  

First you need to be registered in the Aastha program. Secondly you have to comply with certain conditions provided by Roche. 

The conditions include uploading the medicine receipts, signing the certificate and submitting the used vial/strips along with the free of cost medicine packet to the patient support representative. If you fail to fulfil any of the conditions you will not be able to take the next free of cost medicine.

Changes to the dose of medicine must be communicated to the patient support representative before processing and dispensing free of cost medicine with proper certificate (copy of doctor's prescription).

Contact our representative 2 days before receiving the free of cost medicine.

You can continue treatment anywhere in Bangladesh. You can collect the medicine from the nearest Radiant Distribution Centre (Depot).

Our medicine scheme depends on the medicine purchased. After purchasing a specified number of medicines, you can get free of cost medicines after uploading the receipts to your profile or submitting to our representative or sending them through electronic media.

If you sign the ‘Consent to Accept Medicine’, we will understand that you have accepted the medicine correctly. When you and your doctor sign the ‘Consent to Administer Medicine’, we will understand that the medicine has been properly administered to you. After signing both the documents must be returned to our representative.

These two documents 'Certificate of Acceptance of Medicine' and 'Certificate of Administration of Medicine' are very important for us. If you fail to provide these documents to our representative, we will not be able to provide you with any free of cost medicine afterward. Through these documents, we will ascertain the Directorate of Drug Administration that we have given the free of cost medicine to a patient and that the patient has administered the medicine correctly.

The documents should be uploaded or sent to our representative before taking the next medicine. You can send these documents through electronic media by taking photo or scanning them.

Yes you have to submit. If you submit it, we will be sure that you have used the free of cost medicine.

If the used vial/strips with packages of free of cost medicine is not returned, Roche will not be able to provide any free of cost medicine at a later date.

Before taking the next medicine we need to give the used vial/strips with packages. We request that you return it to us quickly, so that it is not lost for any reason. You can send it directly or by courier to any branch of Radiant Distribution Centre or to our representative.

Call +8801730361661 between 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM (Saturday to Thursday) or visit our website anytime to inquire about the location of the medicine dispensary.

Our depots are open from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm.

Yes, we deliver medicines within Dhaka. However, the delivery service is closed on public holidays. You have to collect the medicine from Radiant Distribution Centre (Depot) outside Dhaka.

Medicine supply is available only in Dhaka. Minimum 1 working day is required for free of cost medicine processing and delivery. A minimum of 6 hours is required for the delivery of the purchased medicine, in which case we can deliver if informed before 12 noon about the delivery.

No, you will not be charged any extra cost. We provide this service free of cost.

The price must be paid to the representative at the time of delivery of the medicine to you. We do not accept any cheques. Medicines can be paid in cash or by credit card (within Dhaka).