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Display names of essential drugs provided free: MoH

Kathmandu, Nov 6: The Ministry of Health (MoH) has instructed the District Hospitals, Primary  Health Centers and Health Posts across the country to put a notice board displaying the names  of the essentials drugs that the Ministry provides public free of cost.
By Republica

Kathmandu, Nov 6: The Ministry of Health (MoH) has instructed the District Hospitals, Primary  Health Centers and Health Posts across the country to put a notice board displaying the names  of the essentials drugs that the Ministry provides public free of cost. 


The Ministry, sending a letter to the District Health Office and District Public Health Office recently, has instructed to the District Hospital to enlist 70 types of medicines and display on a flex board. 


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Similarly, the Primary Healthcare Centres have been instructed to display the names of the 358  types of drugs to be distributed by the Centres. 


The Ministry has also asked the Health Centres to enlist and display the names of 35 drugs in  both Nepali and English that are distributed through the Health Centres to bring to the knowledge of the public on the same. 

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