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
