In 1989 legislation made effective a list of essential drugs.

The initial essential drugs list should be seen as a starting point.

Model List of essential drugs - updated every two years.

Some essential drugs are offered free of charge in these hospitals.

However, about 30 per cent of the world's population were known to have little or no regular access to essential drugs.

Under the new rule, the number of prescriptions for essential drugs returned to earlier levels, the researchers found.

Some essential drugs are especially costly in the United States.

These diseases can be eradicated through access to essential drugs.

A national list of essential drugs was established and implemented in all public sector institutions.

India now has two categories of essential drugs, instead of three.

However, the section on essential drugs was later amended.

Essential drugs programs have been a major step forward in ensuring that the maximum number benefit from effective drug therapy for disease.

In the 1960s and 1970s Chile attempted to introduce a rational policy, based on a limited number of essential drugs.

More than half the world's people cannot get the most essential drugs and about a third of the world's children are undernourished, the organization said.

Chile was perhaps the first country in the world to introduce the concept of a limited number of essential drugs.

The essential drugs are used in national health-care programs that combat diseases like tuberculosis and leprosy.

District hospitals and health centers have to procure their drugs based on the essential drugs list.

Practical Drug Guide a handbook for the correct prescribing of essential drugs.

The government-sponsored program provides a specified list of essential drugs to primary care clinics in low-income neighbourhoods.

The model list of essential drugs is divided into 27 main sections, which are listed in English in alphabetical order.

In the neurosurgical wards, the only patients were two boys recovering from surgery whose parents had scrounged the money to pay for essential drugs.

With high inflation and unemployment, they also suffered from shortages of vaccines, hospital supplies, and essential drugs.

Medicines should be listed on the country's essential drugs list or WHO model list.

What we have done is to apply pressure by announcing a total untying with regard to all essential drugs used to treat these transmittable diseases.

Frequent absence of essential drugs.