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An Approach to Integrate Patient, Pharmacist and Quack Physician in Managing COVID19 Pandemic in Bangladesh: A Cloud Based Health Management Systems
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DEBENDRA NATH ROY, MD.SHAH AZAM
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Background and Aims
As a developing country Bangladesh faces challenges in terms of resilience in its health system to manage
COVID19 patients successfully. Pharmacists and quack physicians (also known as village doctor) are the frontliners of mass population healthcare, functioning by nonstop drug dispensing, pharmaceutical counseling and
care even in lockdowns. The aim of the study was to introduce a competency framework and an ICT based
management system for pharmacies to detect COVID19 suspected patients and accumulate key information in
big databases linked to central cloud of architecture.
Methods
Following guidelines provided by Bangladesh Pharmacy Council (BPC), we evaluated the pharmacy practices in
current pandemic context in Bangladesh as well as reviewed extant literatures that explored pharmaceutical
care. A well-known method called “Architecturally Significant Requirements (ARS)” was used to design the
COVID19 based health architecture that satisfies significant requirements for a system architecture
development.
Results
The framework illustrated how a pharmacist and quack physician can take part in early COVID19 detection.
First, the specific and standardized question items of the framework for distinguishing suspected and their
contact tracing have been established. Then a first ever reference COVID19 based architecture was developed
to incorporated the suspect’s details into the database. The proposed cloud based health architecture
accumulates the personal details and relevant data obtained from the suspected patients. Following screening
through the framework, the obtained information is registered, stored and updated regularly into health
database to strengthen the health systems.
Conclusions
Pharmacist, quack physicians and suspected clients will be integrated together for an end to end self-adaptive
pandemic management by resisting the spread of corona virus, and can be an active participant in the
community to combat COVID19 pandemic in Bangladesh.
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COVID19, community transmission, pharmacist, quack physician, Bangladesh
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| DOI:
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2021.13.02.076
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