Friday, January 29, 2016

Union Government brings 376 drugs under the NLEM

The Union Government has added 106 drugs including that of HIV/AIDS, Cancer and Hepatitis C to the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM). In this regard, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s core committee has revised the NLEM.
  • The committee was headed by M. Katoch, former secretary of Department of Health Research.
  • The revision includes addition of 106 essential medicines and deletion of 70 medicines.
  • With this total number of essential medicines in the list have gone up to 376from earlier 348 medicines.
This move will ensure their availability across the country at affordable prices. The new list takes cues from the World Health Organisation (WHO’s) 2015 list of essential drugs and medicines that satisfies the priority healthcare needs of people and ensure affordability.

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