[india-drug] Request for information on the average drug usage of Indian population :Revised (3)

["sukumar vellakkal" <vellakkal@gmail.com>]

Request for information on the average drug usage of Indian population :Revised (3)
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Dear Friends,

Our organisation is engaged in providing all necessary technical and
logistical support for the micro health insurance units for the poor in
India. As a part, We are engaged in facilitating on getting drugs at
reasonable rate to various micro health insurance units. Few days back, I
have posted one querry about the suppliers of low cost drugs, the response
was highly positive, many thanks.
As a follow up, We are looking for some more information on the essential
drugs.
>From one of the websites of Govt of india (and also from WHO), I have
extracted information of a list of 356 essential drugs in India.
1) With these essential drugs, I am eager to know which all illnesses can
(/or can not be) treated, and
2) Also would like to know about the average of the actual uasage of these
essential drugs among the Indian population , for eg. .......mg/1000
population.
These information are expected to help us in making some actuarial
calculation too.
Please give me some guidance on how to collect information on the above
mentioned aspects. I would like to add I don't have previous
experience/expertise in this field. Meanwhile, I have been
exploring some information through internet, but the outcome was not that
much satisfactory.

Thank you

best

Sukumar Vellakkal
Researcher,
Micro Insurance Academy
D-127 Panchsheel Enclave
New Delhi 110017
India
Phone: +91 11 4174 9101
Fax: +91 11 4174 9102
www.microinsuranceacademy.org


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