Info Newsletter Better Health in Bangladesh

BHB supports the Directorate General of Medical Education to develop a competency-based training program the allied health workforce—paraclinical medical technologists, pharmacy technicians, radiotherapists, dental technologists, etc. BHB recruited the ARK Foundation to develop a situational analysis of the educational system that they presented on 9 August 2021 in a meeting chaired by Director General Professor

BHB routinely supports the MOHFW of Bangladesh by hiring consultants for specific assignments and by organizing meetings, workshops, and events. BHB is now recruiting a consultant to conduct a situation analysis of the country’s disease surveillance system and to make recommendations to strengthen the system, so that actions can be taken earlier to prepare for

The BHB Technical Management Committee had their fifth meeting on 8 August 2021 online. Nine participants represented the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), DGDA, Pharmacy Council of Bangladesh, BCDS, UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United States Agency for International Development, World Health Organization, United States Pharmacopeia-Promoting the Quality of Medicines, BHB, and

  Grade C pharmacy technicians dominate the dispenser profession in retail medicine outlets. To prepare retail medicine outlets for accreditation, BHB has trained 5,059 Grade C pharmacy technicians. To determine the training’s effectiveness, icddr,b compared the dispensing practices of 220 trained and 220 un­trained Grade C pharmacy technicians from 11 districts using direct observation and