Last conducted in 2022, BHB conducted a new Good Pharmacy Practices (GPP) assessment from June to August 2024 to evaluate how well the pharmacy professionals who work in model medicine shops and model pharmacies are maintaining the seven key practices that BHB had trained them on. One respondent from each of the 874 medicine shops from 29 districts participated in the survey; 862 (98.6%) were model medicine shops and 12 (1.4%) were model pharmacies. The majority of the respondents were Grade C pharmacy technicians (n=855; 97.5%) followed by Grade A pharmacists (n=8; 0.9%), Grade B diploma pharmacists (n=5; 0.6%), and others (n=6; 0.7%). The respondents’ age ranged from 22 to 82 years and 12 of the 874 were female (1.4%).
The results are notable because the pharmacy professionals in 2024 greatly outperformed those in 2022 on several measures including the especially important practice of not selling antibiotics without a valid prescription, which rose from 33.7% to 82.7%.
The chart shows a comparison of the findings of the 2022 and 2024 surveys.
