September-October 2022

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 […]

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

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

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.

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

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

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)