BHB provides technical assistance to the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) to facilitate the accreditation of retail medicine outlets in Bangladesh. There are six steps for accreditation, shown below.
Six steps for issuing accreditation certificates to retail medicine outlets
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After pre-assessing 10,697 retail medicine outlets (107% of the 10,000 target) between June and October 2021 in 32 districts, BHB started training medicine dispensers from the eligible outlets. By February 2022, 4,949 dispensers (82.5% of 6,000 target) had completed the 12-day training, and the remaining training is expected to be completed by April 2022. BHB began the post-assessment process in these 4,949 retail medicine outlets who completed their window period and whose dispensers were trained. We recruited and oriented 11 post-assessment and accreditation associates and one coordinator in February. They have started collecting data using an electronic tool that was developed and tested in the field.
It may be mentioned here that the activities of BHB are implemented with cooperation of Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the UK government.