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National List of Essential Medicines Nepal

List of Essential Medicines Nepal

Nabin Bista by Nabin Bista
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National List of Essential Medicines Nepal – NLEM

National List of Essential Medicines Nepal – NLEM

Background

  • Essential medicines are those medicines that satisfy the priority health care needs of the population. WHO published the first essential medicine list in 1977 and has been updating it every two years since.
  • Nepal being a signatory of the Alma Ata declaration (1978) implemented the essential medicine program with a first ever National List of Essential Medicines, NLEM in 1986.
  • Since then NLEM revised five times (1992, 1997, 2002, 2011 and 2016) with the support from WHO Nepal.

Currently used in Nepal is the latest National List of Essential Medicines 2016

There were 321 medicines listed in NLEM 2011. A total of 86 medicines have been added or deleted from the NLEM 2011in the current list. A total of 62 medicines have been added and a total of 24 medicines have been deleted from the previous list. Among the 62 added medicines 56 were added to the main list and 6 to the complementary list. The medicines added in the Antitubercular and Antiretroviral groups are added to match with the National TB programme and HIV AIDS Control Program of Government of Nepal. The new list of NLEM 2016 thus contains 359 medicines.

Criteria of selection

The main criteria for selection of the medicines in the NLEM are public health relevance (harmonizing with standard treatment schedule use in primary health care service) , efficacy, safety, cost-effectiveness and access.

Criteria for inclusion of a medicine in NLEM will be as follows:

  • Approved/licensed medicine in the country
  • Relevance for disease posing public health problem (morbidity)
  • Proven efficacy and safety profile based on valid scientific evidence (evidence-based)
  • Cost effective
  • Aligned with STG (the current treatment guidelines under public health program)
  • Stable under the storage conditions
  • Preference on relative safety, efficacy, cost-effectiveness (in case there are more than one alternative)
  • Fixed Dose Combinations (FDCs) with unequivocally proven advantage over Single (in terms of increasing efficacy, reducing adverse effects and/or improving compliance)
  • Access, free drug, SHI

Criteria for deletion of a medicine from NLEM will be as follows:

  • Banned in Nepal
  • Reports of concerns on the safety profile of a medicine
  • If better efficacy or favorable safety profiles and better cost-effectiveness is available.
  • Irrelevant to public health disease burden
  • Antimicrobial resistance pattern (In case of antimicrobials, if the resistance pattern has rendered a medicine ineffective in Nepalese and international context)
  • Medicine with abuse and misuse potential

There are 29 Therapeutic category of medicine in national list of essential medicine 2016, as follow:

  • Anaesthetics
  • Medicine for pain and palliative care
  • Antihistaminics and medicines used in anaphylaxis
  • Antidote and other substances used in poisonings
  • Antiepileptics / Anticonvulsants
  • Anthelminitics
  • Antibacterials
  • Antifungal medicines
  • Antiviral medicines
  • Antiprotozoal medicines
  • Antimigraine medicines
  • Antineoplastic, Immunosuppressives
  • Antiparkinsonism medicines
  • Medicine affecting the blood
  • Blood products and plasma substitutes
  • Cardiovascular medicines
  • Dermatological medicines
  • Diagnostic agents
  • Disinfectants and Antiseptics
  • Diuretics
  • Gastrointestinal medicines
  • Hormones, other Endocrine medicines and contraceptives
  • Immunologicals
  • Muscle relaxants(peripherally acting) and cholinerase inhibitors
  • Ophthalmological, Ear, Nose and throat preparations
  • Oxytocics and antioxytocics
  • Peritoneal dialysis solution
  • Psychotherapeutic medicine
  • Medicines acting on the respiratory tract
  • Solution correcting wtaer, electrolyte and acid base disturbances
  • Vitamins and minerals
  • Specific medicine for neonatal care
  • Medicine for diseases of joint

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