According to a Government office order issued on July 09, 2024, Major General Kazi Md. Rashidunnabi replaced the present Director General of DGDA Major General Mohammad Yousuf. Major General Rashidunnabi, an MPH in public health, joined the DGDA as the new Director General. Upon hearing about this transition, Professor Dr. Abul Kalam Azad, the Country […]
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BHB continues to provide day-to-day human resource support to meet DGDA’s IT needs. The support included content upload to the website, end-user support, software and hardware troubleshooting, network maintenance, system security monitoring, backups and data recovery, collaboration with end-users, and technical support for the Automated Drug License Renewal System and Pharmacy Management Software. A summary
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Jennifer Gardella from Management Sciences for Health recently visited Bangladesh to provide in-country support to facilitate project closeouts and develop content on the impact of MSH’s contributions in Bangladesh’s health sector. She met Major General Mohammad Yousuf, the DG of DGDA, and separately M. Mosaddek Hossain, the Vice president, and Muhammad Mahbubul Haque, the Secretary
The DGDA’s top authorities, including the Director General and other senior officials, are actively promoting the adoption of the Automated Drug Licensing and Renewal System (ADLRS). The BHB, with financial support from the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) of the British Government, developed ADLRS for the DGDA to help automate the issuance of drug
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The upgraded version of the Pharmacy Management Software (PMS), which BHB developed for retail medicine shop inventory management, is now available. The software simplifies the complexities of managing a retail medicine shop in Bangladesh by enabling proactivity in decision-making through effective data monitoring and communication. Offered free of cost, the key features of the PMS
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The MOHFW of the Government of Bangladesh held a ‘Stakeholders’ Consultation Workshop’ on the ‘Governance, Stewardship and Strengthening Health System,’ and ‘Improving Health Services’ components of the 4th Health, Population and Nutrition Sector Program (HPNSP) on 6 June 2024 at the Hotel Amari, Gulshan 2, Dhaka. Presided over by Ms. Nargis Khanam, Additional Secretary (Planning)
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The DGDA has developed a ‘National Guideline on Accreditation of Model Pharmacy and Model Medicine Shop in Bangladesh’ to sustain the Model Pharmacy and Model Medicine Shop accreditation program. BHB has provided technical support to DGDA to develop and print this guideline with funding support from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the
In recent months, BHB enhanced its efforts to raise awareness of AMR among the population by sharing informative videos through social media channels. Two episodes of a recent series were broadcast on social media channels (e.g., Facebook page, YouTube, and websites). In these two episodes, Professor Dr. Sanya Tahmina, former Additional Directorate General of the
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Private medicine shops are one of the largest providers of medicines to consumers in Bangladesh, and prescription-only medicines are often sold without prescriptions. In November-December 2021, DGDA collaborated with the World Health Organization Bangladesh and Fleming Fund to conduct a baseline survey on the level of awareness about antimicrobials, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and their impacts
BHB’s PMS is gradually gaining a user base. As of April 2024, PMS reached 1,092 active users. The software has Android and web versions. Recent usage patterns show that 62% of the active users use the Android version and 38% use the web version, indicating a preference for the mobile version of PMS. Given the
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From 2019 to 2024, BHB exceeded its target of training 14,000 medicine dispensers, with a total of 14,129 medicine dispensers as of April 2024. BHB organized an experience-sharing workshop on 28 April 2024 for the training coordinator and associates. The event explored many valuable insights and experiences to better understand the training program’s impacts. The
The BHB eLearning platform course completion rate surged in the first four months of 2024. Developed in-house and launched in November 2021, and by 30 April 2024, 2,363 participants completed 24,729 courses (10.5 courses per participant on average); of which 1,737 participants competed 21,927 (89% of courses; 12.6 courses per participant) from January to April
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On 07 May 2024, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGDA) in a national workshop held on its premises with DGDA officials from across the country, finalized the Accreditation Guideline for the Model Medicine Shops (MMSs)/Model Pharmacies (MPs). Major General Mohammad Yousuf, the Director General of Drug Administration chaired the workshop. The MMSs/MPs are medicine
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The DGDA began enforcing a directive for pharmaceutical manufacturers to use red-labelled cautionary messages about AMR on the strips and packages of antibiotics before marketing. A few months later 29 February 2024, as part of BHB’s Facebook campaign on AR, it launched a short online survey to gather feedback from medicine dispensers on this new
Interest among policymakers is escalating about the Automated Drug Licensing and Renewal System (ADLRS), which BHB developed for the DGDA to automate the issue of drug licenses to drug shop owners. On 14 February 2024, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) asked the DGDA to provide a live demo of the software. A
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As published previously, BHB launched the upgraded version of the Pharmacy Management Software (PMS) in November 2023. It has three versions, viz., desktop, web, and Android app. Special features of the upgraded version include: Dosage form added to the product selection for purchases and sales Users can delete unapproved purchase and sale orders Point-of-sale printing
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BHB’s eLearning platform was developed in-house and launched in December 2021 as an online platform for medicine dispensers’ continued professional education. Since then, 14,159 dispensers have participated, with an impressive enrolment of 11,184 in only the first two months of 2024. The course completion rate is also astonishing with 75.0% in 2023, 90.7% in 2024,
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After providing GPP training to 11,577 medicine dispensers (5,371 in the first round, 2019-20 and 6,206 in the second round, 2021-22), BHB started its third round of online training via Zoom targeting 2,500 Grade C Pharmacy Technicians, which was formally inaugurated by the Director General of Drug Administration, Major General Dr Mohammad Yusuf, on 18
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BHB, with support from the British Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO), is assisting the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) in developing a national guideline to sustain the program to accredit model pharmacies and model medicine shops without external assistance. A committee headed by Md. Eyahya, Director of DGDA, finalized the draft on
BHB is operating the eLearning platform to promote continued professional learning for the pharmacy professionals. Following is given a list of the courses available in the eLearning platform: Courses in English language Automated Drug Licensing and Renewal System (ADLRS) Baseline data collection training of enumerators on medicine outlets Good Dispensing Practices Grade C Training Event
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