[india-drug] Strategies for involving key stake holders for RUD

["dsprud" <dsprud@satyam.net.in>]

Strategies for involving key stake holders for RUD
--------------------------------------------------


Dear India-drug network members,

The Orissa workshop on rational use of drugs at Cuttack on 7th March,
2002, was very successful.  We have now received requests from
different organizations, medical institutions and pharmacy colleges for
support for holding workshops in rational use of drugs.  Obviously,
there is awareness that these workshops help in better prescribing.

The issue I want to discuss with others in the network is why no state
government or other institution has taken the lead in providing any
resource for holding this type of workshop.  I would also like members
in this network to suggest ways how we could translate interest and
awareness of the use of such workshops into commitment of financial 
resources for holding them.  If governments and medical colleges are
not willing to pay for these workshops how will they be held? An
organization such as ours can only support a small number of workshops
which can only be a model but cannot support workshops throughout the
country.  

I hope that members of the network would think about this and react to
this issue.

With all good wishes,

Yours sincerely,

PROF. RANJIT ROY CHAUDHURY
PRESIDENT
DELHI SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF RATIONAL USE OF DRUGS
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY
ARUNA ASAF ALI MARG
NEW DELHI - 110 067
TEL.: 91.11.6179638 & 6165776
FAX:  91.11.6162125



________________________________________________________________________
For live cricket scores download  Yahoo! Score Tracker
 at: http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cricket/tracker.html
The INDIA-DRUG discussion group is a partnership between SATELLIFE
(www.healthnet.org), WHO Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy
(www.who.ch), and the Delhi Society for the Promotion of the
Rational Use of Drugs (DSPRUD) in India.

To send a message to india-drug, write to: india-drug@usa.healthnet.org
To subscribe or unsubscribe, write to: majordomo@usa.healthnet.org
in the body of the message type: subscribe india-drug OR unsubscribe india-drug
To contact a person, send a message to: india-drug-help@usa.healthnet.org