E-DRUG: Introduction of RUD in Afghanistan - Herat
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Dear E-druggers,
The Danish Afghanistan Committee is providing Health Services in three
districts in the provence of Herat, Afganistan. We have for long planned to
start an intervention to improve the rational use of drugs, as problems with
medicine use in Afghanistan are well known. Expectations from patients are
centered around medicine and prescribers trying to mediate between
rationality and patient demands. This problem has been known since the
start of the project, but never been adequately documented, reason why we
want to start with this intervension.
For the last 2 weeks we have had Professor Jawaha Bapna from the India
Institute of health Management in Jaipur of to start this intervention for
us, we have managed to train 65 doctors in the first steps to change this
system. Professor Bapna will be back in August to continue this procedure
and again sometime next year. We have now prepared an STG for 90 common
conditions in Dari, which we will print and use in our further progress.
Before Prof Bapna's next arrival we will continue working with drug use
forms, prescribing quality forms, patient care forms, stock out forms,
the updated version of the STGs and try to faciliate control groups
with other NGOs.
Inge-Lise Aaen
Project Director
DAC,Herat, Afghanistan
E-mail: aaen99@gmail.com