Healthcare delivery needs of the common people cannot be accomplished totally by the government sector. In West Bengal and Jharkhand, a number of NGOs appear to fill a large share of the gap in healthcare delivery. More often than not they cater to the needs of thousands of care seekers with too scarce resources which they manage to gather through assistance and donations of different kinds. While their motivation to run a regular health care activity is praiseworthy, many of such NGOs operating in the rural and remote areas are manned by health care workers who often lack formal training. Besides, such NGO clinics are almost always left with handling too huge a patient load in too short a time available. This contributes greatly to the irrationality in the prescribing and dispensing of medicines. CDMU took-up this challenge to train the healthcare personnel involved in medicines indenting storage and dispensing for providing effective service to the community.

CDMU training function has been active since 1986 and has to date trained more than 8000 health workers in West Bengal and Jharkhand.

Report of Training Workshop
Sensitization meeting for healthcare workers on Training Module
Report of sensitization meeting of health workers
Sensitization meeting for healthcare workers on Training Module

Serial No.	Date	Venue	State	Programme	No. Of Participants	Organized By
1	19.09.2023	CDMU, Kolkata	West Bengal	Online Training Program on "Prescription Interpretation" with Health Workers	5	CDMU on facilitation by Dr. Tapas Bhattacharyya
2	17.06.2023	DBITA, Jalpaiguri	West Bengal	Care of Child in health and illness in Tea Garden for Medical Officers	53	CDMU & DBITA
3	16.06.2023	DBITA, Jalpaiguri	West Bengal	Care of Child in health and illness in Tea Garden for Pharmacist	38	CDMU & DBITA
4	08.02.2023	SHIS Southern Health Improvement Samity	South 24 Parganas	Sensitization Meeting for Health Workers on Training Module	21	CDMU
5	06.02.2023	Social Development Center, Ranchi	Jharkhand	Identifying areas of cooperation after (STG) Standard TReatment Guidelines Publication (3rd Edition)	6	Sign & CDMU
6	28.12.2022	IIMC Institute for Mother & Child	South 24 Parganas	Sensitization Meeting for Health Workers on Training Module	18	CDMU
7	14.12.2022	Hazaribag	Jharkhand	Way Forward with (STG) Standard Treatment Guidelines	17	CDMU & Jan Vikas Kendra
8	29.09.2022	Living Hope, Taldi	South 24 Parganas	Sensitization Meeting for Health Workers on Training Module	5	CDMU
9	16.09.2022	Calcutta Kids	Howrah	Sensitization Meeting for Health Workers on Training Module	13	CDMU
10	06.07.2022	Chandwa	Jharkhand	Way Forward with (STG) Standard Treatment Guidelines	17	CDMU & Samaj Vikas Sanstha
11	24.06.2022	Catholic Charities, Jamshedpur	Jharkhand	Way Forward with (STG) Standard Treatment Guidelines	12	CDMU & Catholic Charities
12	14.05.2022	DBITA, Jalpaiguri	West Bengal	Role of Pharmacists in epidemic or pandemic	38	CDMU & DBITA
13	13.05.2022	DBITA, Jalpaiguri	West Bengal	Primary management in stroke for Medical Officers	55	CDMU & DBITA
14	28.04.2022	Social Development Center, Ranchi	Jharkhand	Way Forward with (STG) Standard Treatment Guidelines	23	CDMU & SIGN

CDMU offers elaborate training packages to various target groups of health personnel in different aspects of healthcare provision. These packages include:

Management of the health facility

Supply chain

Logistics

Pharmaceutical scenario in India vis-à-vis the essential medicines concept

Rational use of essential medicines

Good prescribing habits

First aid at home / in the work place

Basic clinical skills relevant to drug use

Basic infection control

Disease management

Purpose of our capacity building

The purpose of CDMU capacity building program is to improve the quality of patient care, reduce infections, illness and death. This in turn makes a significant contribution in reducing the mortality and morbidity rates in West Bengal and Jharkhand. The training makes a contribution to poverty reduction through decrease of the burden of expensive treatment to the patients, hence making quality health services affordable by the majority of the poor.