BHB Newsletter

August 2021

Development of competency-based training for Bangladesh’s allied health workforce

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 […]

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5th BHB Technical Management Committee Meeting

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

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Members of BCDS oriented on the DGDA Automated Drug Licensing and Renewal System

The DGDA wants to streamline retail drug outlet licensing and renewal to better track licensing status and to make the process easier for license applicants. BHB hired an IT firm and worked with DGDA to develop the Automated Drug Licensing and Renewal System. As the largest body representing retail outlet owners, the BCDS received a

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“BHB’s training to Grade C pharmacy technicians needs scaling up.”

  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

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An icdrb’b study finds that the Model Pharmacy initiative is a unique idea to ensure better pharmacy practice in Bangladesh [Photos of the member of the study team are shown on top]. BHB engaged an icddr,b research team to explore the factors related to retaining Grade A pharmacists employed in Model Pharmacies and the suitability

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