BHB has continued its IT support to the DGDA including website content uploads, end-user assistance, troubleshooting for both software and hardware, network maintenance, system security monitoring, data backups and recovery, as well as collaboration and technical support for the Automated Drug Licensing and Renewal System and the Pharmacy Management Software. An overview follows: Website content […]
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BHB’s public health awareness campaign focused on GPP, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and emerging issues such as healthy practices during the flood and post-flood situation. Between July and August 2024, BHB’s Facebook content reached almost 967,000 people, and the number of page followers reached 33,000. The AMR awareness campaign during this time included an appealing poster
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BHB’s target of accrediting 10,000 medicine shops by September 2024 was in danger when a major flash flood hit the eastern part of Bangladesh on 17 August 2024. As of 16 August 2024, 9,166 (91.7% of target) medicine shops had been accredited. Despite the disruption caused by the floods, the regulatory authority, the Directorate General
Since the project began in 2018, BHB has trained 14,129 pharmacy professionals in Bangladesh on GPP. In the last round of online training, Murad Ali, a trainee from Jhenaidah district, fell severely ill. A heart patient, Murad’s condition worsened requiring urgent treatment abroad. However, BHB’s training associate was determined to help him complete the training.
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Bangladesh has approximately 156,000 licensed medicine shops and 160,000 unlicensed medicine shops totaling 316,000. About 90% (n=284,000) of these medicine shops are community pharmacies. A community pharmacy is a healthcare facility that provides pharmaceutical services to the public. So, there are 16.7 community pharmacies, on average per 10,000 people of Bangladesh. In contrast, in the USA, the
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Last conducted in 2022, BHB conducted a new Good Pharmacy Practices (GPP) assessment from June to August 2024 to evaluate how well the pharmacy professionals who work in model medicine shops and model pharmacies are maintaining the seven key practices that BHB had trained them on. One respondent from each of the 874 medicine shops
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