An team of three senior leadership members of MSH comprised of Dr. Aday Adetosoye, Vice President, Global Health Program Delivery Group; Ms Colleen McGuffin, Chief People and Culture Officer; and Dr. Dan Schwarz, Associate Vice President, Global Health Systems Innovation, visited Bangladesh from 20 to 24 August 2022 to meet the staff members of MSH’s …
MSH-BD staff boosted from senior leadership team’s visit Read More »
In July and August 2022, there has been good progress in the Directorate General of Medical Education’s (DGME) digitalization efforts, particularly in the Central Student Information Management System, which DGME has now rolled out country-wide. All the medical and dental colleges in Bangladesh, both private and public, use the system to centrally manage their students’ …
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BHB provided online training on GPP to 6,206 Grade C pharmacy technicians between August 2021 and March 2022. Teachers from university pharmacy departments, pharmacy professionals, and officials from DGDA and Pharmacy Council of Bangladesh (PCB) conducted the training sessions using curriculum endorsed by PCB. BHB worked with PCB to develop, print, and distribute a complementary …
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To help promote GPP in Bangladesh, BHB has maintained a Facebook page since 2018 with now more than 20,000 followers. Followers are mainly dispensers, pharmacy educators, pharmacy regulators, and medicine shop owners. In addition to promoting awareness of GPP and topics such as antimicrobial resistance and COVID-19, the page also covers Q&As and includes follower …
An eminent researcher, Dr. ATM Iqbal Anwar, formerly a scientist at icddr,b, will head BHB’s assessment of medicine dispensers’ adherence to GPP. The study will be conducted in model pharmacies and model medicine shops in five districts: Dhaka, Satkhira, Natore, Chandpur, and Sylhet. A research protocol and an electronic data collection tool have been developed, …
MSH’s Better Health in Bangladesh (BHB) project, with assistance from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO), is working with the Government of Bangladesh’s Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) to accredit retail medicine shops as either model pharmacies or model medicine shops, if they meet 12 standards set by the Ministry of Health …
BHB is close to meeting private medicine shops’ accreditation target of 4,000 Read More »
