Rapid Assessment of the Capacity of Drug Testing Laboratory of the DGDA of Bangladesh

The SIAPS team visited the DTL to assess the DGDA’s readiness for the implementation of the medicine registration process change. The team assessed the process of requesting the reporting pre-approval sample test and discussed how to incorporate the functionality of internal communication on pre-approval sample test into the PharmaDex system.
To understand the current challenges to changing the DGDA’s process, SIAPS conducted a rapid assessment of the DTL’s capacity to conduct pre-approval sample testing in August 2014. The objectives of the assessment were to:
-Review the current pre-approval sample testing process and discuss how to incorporate the functionality of sampling test communication into PharmaDex
-Identify opportunities to improve the pre-approval sampling process to ensure the quality of the products before they reach the market
-Identify any weaknesses and potential disadvantages of changing the pre-approval sampling test process
-Provide initial data to support future technical assistance to build the capacity of the DTL