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‘Every
hospital should have its own EDL’
Dr Urmila Thatte, head, dept of clinical pharmacology and
member of Drugs Therapeutic Committee (DTC), Nair Hospital
spearheaded the MCGM taskforce on STGs and EDL. In a conversation
with Soumya Viswanathan, Dr Thatte speaks on the protocol
for preparing an Essential Drugs List, “a must for every hospital.”
EDL
can cut down upto 30 pc costs for hospitals
Dr
Kathleen Holloway, medical officer, essential drugs and medicines
policy, WHO, was in India recently to conduct the Drug Therapeutics
Committee (DTC) course for clinical pharmacologists and says
that a lot of work still needs to be done in this area. In
a conversation with Soumya Viswanathan, she says why it is
important to implement essential drugs list (EDL).
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