Antibiotic resistance prevention initiative launched at DU Leave a comment
An antibiotic resistance prevention initiative titled ‘Health Innovation Ecosystem: A Way Forward to Combat Antibiotic Resistance’, was launched on Saturday at the auditorium of the Institute of Business Administration of Dhaka University.
This platform will create collaboration among patients, physicians, and pharmacists via the ‘Kambaii Health’ App to ensure appropriate prescriptions and purchase of antibiotic.
As part of the programme a panel discussion session was held.
Wilfred Ngwa from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Sayeda Yasmin Karim of Harvard Medical School, Ashdeep of UC Berkley, Nowreen Haq of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, CRID-USA co-founder and president Mehedi Shams, IDEA project director Md Altaf Hossain, Md Shadat Hossain, director, MIS, DG Health, Ahsanullah Univeristy of Science & Technology Muhammad Fali Illahi, Saklayen Russel, head, vascular surgery at Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital and Research Institute and Hossain Md Al-Amin, Programme Head, CRID-USA joined the event as panelists at the event.
‘Antibiotic resistance is becoming a global public health issue. Our healthcare providers are not really following what they should follow. They are prescribing one or two antibiotics without going through a proper investigation.’ said the former director of World Health Organization, Monir Islam.
At the discussion, the director of the IBA DU, professor Mohammad A Momen highlighted the importance of managers and business graduates in the public health sector to further public health initiatives.
DU IBA student and the event coordinator Shah Adaan Uzzaman, also the blog administrator of the specialist English blog The Confluence said, ‘A health innovation ecosystem will be instrumental in combating this crisis which will also drive healthcare technology startups and pharmaceutical companies as well as attract foreign direct investments in Bangladesh.’
BMSS representatives Md Ragib Shahriar and Iftekhar Ahmed Sakib collaborated with the members of the BMSS organising committee to accelerate the cause of fighting antibiotic resistance in Bangladesh.
CRID (USA), in collaboration with the ICT Division of the government of Bangladesh, the Directorate General of Health Services, IDEA Project, IBA, DU, Bangladesh Medical Students’ Society (BMSS), Ahsanullah Univeristy of Science & Technology, Daffodil International University and ‘Kambaii Health’ App, launched this health-innovation platform as part of the bigger initiative to create an innovation startup eco-system in Bangladesh.
