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What is Which of the following is true regarding essential medicines and explain in detail?
essential drugs- needed to satisfy primary health care needs of the society regularly indian govt will release national list of essential medicines - these drugs should be available in all PHCs and in government hospitals orphan drugs - for rare diseases Ref KD tripathi 8th ed.