On January 15, Dr Rashid Zaman and Dr Shafiqul Islam, FCDO Health Advisors, and Professor Dr Abul Kalam Azad, BHB Country Project Director, met with the Director General and senior officials at the Directorate General of Medical Education (DGME) to discuss its management information system, which FCDO is funding BHB to help develop. To illustrate […]
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To further promote medicine dispensers’ use of its eLearning platform, BHB recently added two eLearning courses—Basic Principles of Medicine Management and Good Dispensing Practice (GDP). In the first month, 84 students had completed the medicine management course, while 25 students completed the second eLearning course, which was launched later. The courses include text, images, videos,
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The BHB staff who attended the accreditation award event in Sylhet took the opportunity to hold an in-person training of medicine dispensers, medicine shop owners, and local DGDA officials on the Automated Drug Licensing and Renewal System (ADLRS). Training participants gained hands-on skills on using the ADLRS and had their questions answered. BHB developed the
BHB began supporting the DGDA’s retail medicine shop accreditation program in 2019, when the first round of 2,193 medicine shops was accredited. The second round was in 2021-2022, when 4,542 medicine shops were accredited. The third accreditation round, targeting 3,500 medicine shops, will take place in 2023-2024. BHB collaborates with local DGDA officials, leaders of
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On February 9, the Director General of Drug Administration, Major General Dr Mohammad Yousuf, awarded accreditation certificates to 477 medicine shops in Sylhet district that passed the government’s Model Medicine Shop standards. BHB had prepared these medicine shops through a structured process of pre-assessment, training, upgradation of medicine shop, and post-assessment to meet the standards.
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Assessing Good Pharmacy Practices in Private Medicine Shops in selected Districts of Bangladesh, a study undertaken by the Better Health in Bangladesh (BHB) project and supported by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO), was completed. The researcher presented the final report in a formal event held online on January 24, 2023. Major General
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