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🪡 India's NLEM is out. "Essential medicines are those that satisfy the priority health care needs of a population. They are selected with due regard to disease prevalence and public health relevance, evidence of efficacy and safety and comparative cost-effectiveness" says @WHO .
But where do disabled people and those living with chronic medical conditions fit in? There's no acknowledgement of the priority of life-saving and life-sustaining pharma needs of 15% of the population in the Essential Medicine List of either WHO / NLEM. Do minorities not matter?
Let's take #Desferal. This is included in the NLEM, (always has at a secondary and tertiary level), but presumably for mainstream medical cases of iron poisoning. What about iron chelation therapy for those who have transfusion dependent thalassemia with reaction to oral version
