Question

1. Who has access to essential medicines and health services in India?

Answer 1

The concept of essential medicine was to develop and was made affordable for the worlds poor. making the medicines available for the poor is the major concern of health outcomes.

there are several developing countries where access to the medicines which are essential are possible now, but there are also countries like India which is still developing and providing essential medicines to all the poor background is still not sufficient.

Total of 40 % of the budget of health care of a country is based on the drugs and the pharmaceutical resources, yet there are a large number of population for whom access to the essential medicines are not possible due to the lack of government awareness or the high cost, in many developing countries pharmaceutical companies produces more number of essential medicines and its valid uses ,and at very affordable rate to make the access of it to the poor group of the country.

NEEDS OF ESSENTIAL DRUGS

There are many diseases such as respiratory disorder, 7 killer diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, diarrhea, malaria, etc that can be treated with the essential drugs when they are at the initial phase of development.

A report says that there are 40 million deaths has occurred in developing countries in one year due to lack of accessibility to the essential drugs for the poor group, there were 1/3 children and 10 million people died from the respiratory illness and the infectious diseases that could have avoided with the availability of the essential medicines.

INDIAN SCENARIO

IN INDIA the government has launched the policy of implementing the policy of making the availability of the essential drugs in 2011 and it was implemented in 2012 and also the number of medicines was increased from 348 to 652, after implementing of this policy there was 10% reduction in the cost of essential medicines.

the high price of medicines is still a matter of concern for Indians, every year 20 million people are reported below the poverty line and they lack the accessibility of the essential medicines.

IN India the essential medicines are mainly available for the poor economic background but due to the increase in population

AVAILABILITY AND THE ACCESSIBILITY OF THE MEDICINES

As India is one of the developing countries and there are differences in poverty from the district to district and from the state to state, it is estimated that the south region of India where people are more educated they often purchase medicines from the outside rather than taking at the affordable cost, but the north part such as BIHAR, UP, and other states are relying on the availability and  of essential medicines.

due to lack of availability of the medicine in the market 50 to 80 % of the population is unable to access the medicine despite the low price.

lack of essential medicines give evidence towards the poor control of the government, the organization and to the financial management system, there is lack of medicine in the public sector as compared to the private sectors in the developing country like India, due to the non-availability of the essential medicines for the people from the poor background and also they are forced to buy medicines from the private sector and also they are forced to abstain the treatment.

as the medicine should be available in the public sector and at the very affordable rate to the people of the poor economic background.

As essential medicines are available for the people from the poor background and the access should be made easy to them but due to lack of proper implementation most of the people of India are unable to access to the essential medicine and they are forced to empty their bank balance and they remain poor.

India is one of the largest manufacturers of generic medicines and still it is unable to make the essential medicine available at the affordable rate to the people from the poor economic background, due to the quality and the cost, the drug which is available at the low cost is not effective as compared to the drug that is available at the higher cost, a regular monitoring regarding the accessibility of the drug should be done to ensure the quality and the availability of the essential medicines.