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
Third round of model medicine shops accreditation program begins Read More »
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
Pharmacy retailers’ adherence to Good Pharmacy Practice improving Read More »
The tenure of BHB project of MSH has been extended till December 2024. An amendment memo has been signed on this matter between FCDO and MSH. The team lead of Human Capital of FCDO Ms. Fahmida Shabnam and Senior Contract Officer of MSH Ms. Alexandra Da Silva signed the memo on 11 December 2022 and
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BHB is a member of DGDA’s Coalition of Interested Partners, which is helping it attain maturity level 3 for vaccine regulation based on the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Benchmarking Tool. BHB is an active member of this coalition. The coalition met at DGDA headquarters on 3 October 2022 in collaboration with WHO. WHO will
Pharmacy Management Software (PMS) can be a comprehensive business solution if the retail medicine shop takes advantage of its full functionality. It ensures efficient operations including human resource information management, purchase management, sales invoicing with point-of-sale, sales return, stock management, expiry tracking, revenue management, etc. The latest data show that login credentials have been approved
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On 8 November 2022, Dr Rashid Zaman, Dr Shafiqul Islam, and Ms. Fawzia Nasrin of FCDO visited a model medicine shop in Jamalpur Sadar district and met with the Assistant Director of the local DGDA office, Ms. Gouri Rani Basak. The team was interested in the medicine shop’s adherence to good pharmacy practice, viz., presence
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On 26 December 2022, The Daily Ittefaq published a news article titled “Antimicrobial Resistance and Pharmacy Services in Bangladesh,” co-authored by Dr Iftakhar Hasan Khan, Principal Technical Adviser, and Ms. Raian Amzad, Technical Adviser, of BHB. The article covered BHB’s contribution to combating AMR and strengthening pharmacy services in Bangladesh through the model medicine shops
BHB undertook a study in 2022 to understand the level of adherence to Good Pharmacy Practice by the medicine dispensers they had trained from model medicine shops. DGDA leads the model medicine shop initiative with technical assistance from BHB and funding from FCDO. The preliminary report shows that 51.2% of the medicine shops (129 out
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BHB runs an eLearning platform for medicine dispensers in Bangladesh to enhance and upgrade their professional knowledge and skills. BHB plans to further enrich this platform for grade C pharmacy technicians (medicine dispensers) who work in Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA)-licensed medicine outlets to access continuous professional development material. The eLearning course content will
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Funded by the British Government Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Management Sciences for Health’s Better Health for Bangladesh (BHB) project has provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) to implement its 4th Health Population and Nutrition Sector Programme (HPNSP)—supporting 24 projects since 2017. In addition, BHB has helped organize
An FCDO team comprised of Development Director, Mr Matt Cannel; Health Advisers, Dr Rashid Zaman and Dr Shafiqul Islam; and two members from FCDO’s education team visited two model medicine shops in Barishal on 26 September 2022 accompanied by Dr Iftakhar Hasan Khan, Mr Mominur Rahman, and Mr Syed Rajib Rahman of BHB. The team
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BHB has exceeded its 2021-2022 target of accreditation of retail medicine outlets and could accredit 4,542 medicine outlets against a 2021-2022 target of 4,000. With BHB, so far, helped DGDA to accredit 6,735 medicine outlets beginning from 2019. The UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) provides support to BHB for carrying out the accreditation
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BHB has developed and is running an eLearning platform for quite some time from now. Recently, a plan has been made to use it for continuous professional education of the dispensers, who work in the retail medicine outlets of Bangladesh particularly in the model pharmacies and model medicine shops. This online eLearning platform can be
eLearning platform to promise new breakthrough Read More »
BHB engaged PCB to develop the training materials for the Grade B pharmacists. PCB mobilized experts, teachers, and professionals to develop trainees’ handbook, trainers’ manual, and PowerPoint slide sets. Review process underwent several steps. Finally, on 12 September 2022, the training materials development team and vice-president of PCB held a meeting and finalized the materials.
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BHB completed the distribution of training handbooks to Grade C pharmacy technicians who recently completed GPP training given by BHB. The online training began on 21 August 2021 and last batch of pharmacy technicians finished on 28 March 2022. The total number of successful participants was 6,206. Following the end of the training, BHB completed
GPP training handbook and certificate distribution to Grade C pharmacy technicians Read More »
Better Health in Bangladesh’s study to assess medicine dispensers’ adherence to GPP in Bangladesh has progressed under the leadership of a well-known researcher, Dr. ATM Iqbal Anwar. BHB is a project of MSH which receives technical assistance grant from FCDO. The quantitative study was conducted in five districts, Dhaka, Satkhira, Natore, Chandpur and Sylhet. The
Study on the medicine dispensers’ adherence to GPP is nearly complete Read More »
The World Pharmacists Day is observed all over the world on 25 September each year. To commemorate the day this year, the Better Health in Bangladesh (BHB) project organized a webinar for more than 300 participants in collaboration with the Pharmacy Council of Bangladesh (PCB). BHB made a keynote presentation on Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP)
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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
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