Essential Drugs List

Essential Medicines includes medicine needs for a basic health‐care system.listing the most efficacious, safe and cost‐effective medicines for priority conditions. Priority conditions are selected on the basis of current and estimated future public health relevance, and potential for safe and cost‐effective treatment.This application contains the following medicines with their explanation.

>>ANAESTHETICS

>>MEDICINES FOR PAIN AND PALLIATIVE CARE

>>ANTIALLERGICS AND MEDICINES USED IN ANAPHYLAXIS

>>ANTIDOTES AND OTHER SUBSTANCES USED IN POISONINGS

>>ANTICONVULSANTS AND ANTIEPILEPTICS

>>ANTI-INFECTIVE MEDICINES

>>ANTIMIGRAINE MEDICINES

>>ANTINEOPLASTIC AND IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVES

>>ANTIPARKINSONISM MEDICINES

>>MEDICINES AFFECTING THE BLOOD

>>BLOOD PRODUCTS AND PLASMA SUBSTITUTES OF HUMAN ORIGIN

>>CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINES

>>DERMATOLOGICAL MEDICINES (topical)

>>DIAGNOSTIC AGENTS

>>DISINFECTANTS AND ANTISEPTICS

>>DIURETICS

>>GASTROINTESTINAL MEDICINES

>>HORMONES, OTHER ENDOCRINE MEDICINES AND CONTRACEPTIVES

>>IMMUNOLOGICALS

>>MUSCLE RELAXANTS (PERIPHERALLY-ACTING) AND CHOLINESTERASE

>>OPHTHALMOLOGICAL PREPARATIONS

>>PERITONEAL DIALYSIS SOLUTION

>>MEDICINES FOR MENTAL AND BEHAVIOURALDISORDERS

>>MEDICINES ACTING ON THE RESPIRATORY TRACT

>>SOLUTIONS CORRECTING WATER, ELECTROLYTE AND ACID-BASE

>>VITAMINS AND MINERALS

>>EAR, NOSE AND THROAT MEDICINES IN CHILDREN

>>SPECIFIC MEDICINES FOR NEONATAL CARE

>>MEDICINES FOR DISEASES OF JOINTS

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