Department of Pharmacology, Mamata Medical College, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Indian J Pharmacol. 2011 Sep;43(5):599-600. doi: 10.4103/0253-7613.84981.
The present study was undertaken to assess the availability of the essential medicines to the people of Kunijarla, Khammam district, AP. This was done in two steps: 1) Comparison of PHC-EML (primary health care essential medicines list) with AP-EML (Andhra Pradesh essential medicines list) and NEML (National essential medicines list); and 2) Assessment of availability of the listed medicines in adequate quantity to meet the needs of people of kunijarla. Results showed that the PHC-EML is on par with AP-EML and NEML. The hospital has 100% availability of the listed medicines; however, there was a need for certain add-on drugs like phenytoin tablets, valproic acid, and activated charcoal since they were prescribed frequently and were not included in PHC-EML. All the drugs which were listed in PHC-EML were being used and none were considered as non-utility supply. Suggestions were given for the revision of PHC-EML according to the criteria for identifying medicines for inclusion in the revised list which was mentioned in NEML.
本研究旨在评估库尼贾拉地区昆马姆区人民可获得的基本药物。这是通过两步来完成的：1）将 PHC-EML（初级卫生保健基本药物清单）与 AP-EML（安得拉邦基本药物清单）和 NEML（国家基本药物清单）进行比较；2）评估列出的药物是否有足够的数量以满足库尼贾拉人民的需求。结果表明，PHC-EML 与 AP-EML 和 NEML 相当。该医院 100%提供列出的药物；然而，由于某些附加药物（如苯妥英片、丙戊酸和活性炭）经常被开处方，但未包含在 PHC-EML 中，因此需要这些药物。列入 PHC-EML 的所有药物都在使用，没有一种被认为是无用供应。根据 NEML 中提到的确定列入修订清单的药物的标准，提出了修订 PHC-EML 的建议。
