[e-drug] Abandoned essential medicines (6)

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E-DRUG: Abandoned essential medicines (6)
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[Two responses in one message.  Moderator]

1. From Valeria
I agree with moderator, especially when treatment is life-saving, easy to administer and highly cost-effective, thus in a context of rationing  would not "steal" healthcare from  anyone else.

Valeria

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Dr Valeria Frighi
University Dept. of Psychiatry
Neurosciences Building
Warneford Hospital
Oxford
OX3 7JX
UK

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2. From Pablo again
I would like to add to my previous mail that "as a general rule" we  
shouldn´t add drugs for the treatment of rare (low incidence or  
prevalence rate) "but important" diseases (vital drugs?). In any  
case, on my opinion, we have to be very careful with the exceptions.  
Under drug management point of view and with limited budget the ideal  
EDL is that with no more that 300 to 400 drugs, then you can have  
complementary drug lists for example if you want.

Maybe I am bringing the discussion to a different issue. It is very  
interesting for me to know about those drugs considered abandoned and  
essential worldwide. Just wanted to point that the criteria to  
include a drug in this list is different here and there.

Regards

Pablo Alcocer-Vera
Pharmacist
Spain
palcocer@gmail.com