'Can we Reach the Goal of Medicines for All?' a talk by Dr. Anant Phadke at Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 17th February 2014
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture in the ‘India in Transition’ series on ‘Can we Reach the Goal of Medicines for All?’ by Dr. Anant Phadke, Senior Adviser, Sathi-Cehat, Pune.
Abstract:
In India though medicines worth more than Rs. 75,000 crores are being sold annually, (Rs. 600 per capita) about 40% of Indians do not get even essential medicines. This situation can be changed radically within a few years with a two-pronged strategy of:
1) Generalization of the ‘Tamil Nadu Model’ of ‘Medicines for All in Public Health Facilities (PHFs):
Since 1995 an autonomous corporation in the Public Sector, the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation (TNMSC), procures directly from manufacturers, quality generic medicines in bulk through a transparent bidding process. It supplies these medicines to the PHFs. TNMSC procurement prices of quality generic medicines are very low; for many medicines they are one thirtieth to even one seventieth of the retail prices of leading brands! Hence even at a budget of around Rs. 300 crores, Rs. 43 per capita, Tamil Nadu is able to provide free medicines to all indoor and outdoor patients in all PHCs, all secondary, tertiary care hospitals of the State Government.
2) Generalization of the experiment in Chittorgarh and Nagaur district in Rajasthan:
It showed that good quality generic medicines can be made available with the retail pharmacists at rates which are one fourth to one tenth the rates of the leading brands!! Medicines can thus be made affordable for those who go to the doctors in private sector.
To conclude, the goal of ‘Quality Medicines for All’ can certainly be reached within a matter of a few years if there is the political will of the ministers, top bureaucrats and if doctors co-operate.
Speaker : Dr. Anant Phadke has been a leading member, from late seventies, of a number of organizations (Medico-Friend Circle, All India Drug Action Network (AIDAN), Lok Vidnyan Sanghatana, LOCOST, Jan Swasthya Abhiyan) in the Health and Science Movement in India. He is the founder co-ordinator and now a Senior Advisor of SATHI-CEHAT, a leading NGO in the Peoples’ Health Movement in India. He has authored over 300 articles in English and Marathi, a few books on People’s Health movement issues and training manuals for Community Health Workers.
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture in the ‘India in Transition’ series on ‘Can we Reach the Goal of Medicines for All?’ by Dr. Anant Phadke, Senior Adviser, Sathi-Cehat, Pune.
In India though medicines worth more than Rs. 75,000 crores are being sold annually, (Rs. 600 per capita) about 40% of Indians do not get even essential medicines. This situation can be changed radically within a few years with a two-pronged strategy of:
1) Generalization of the ‘Tamil Nadu Model’ of ‘Medicines for All in Public Health Facilities (PHFs):
Since 1995 an autonomous corporation in the Public Sector, the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation (TNMSC), procures directly from manufacturers, quality generic medicines in bulk through a transparent bidding process. It supplies these medicines to the PHFs. TNMSC procurement prices of quality generic medicines are very low; for many medicines they are one thirtieth to even one seventieth of the retail prices of leading brands! Hence even at a budget of around Rs. 300 crores, Rs. 43 per capita, Tamil Nadu is able to provide free medicines to all indoor and outdoor patients in all PHCs, all secondary, tertiary care hospitals of the State Government.
2) Generalization of the experiment in Chittorgarh and Nagaur district in Rajasthan:
It showed that good quality generic medicines can be made available with the retail pharmacists at rates which are one fourth to one tenth the rates of the leading brands!! Medicines can thus be made affordable for those who go to the doctors in private sector.
To conclude, the goal of ‘Quality Medicines for All’ can certainly be reached within a matter of a few years if there is the political will of the ministers, top bureaucrats and if doctors co-operate.
Speaker : Dr. Anant Phadke has been a leading member, from late seventies, of a number of organizations (Medico-Friend Circle, All India Drug Action Network (AIDAN), Lok Vidnyan Sanghatana, LOCOST, Jan Swasthya Abhiyan) in the Health and Science Movement in India. He is the founder co-ordinator and now a Senior Advisor of SATHI-CEHAT, a leading NGO in the Peoples’ Health Movement in India. He has authored over 300 articles in English and Marathi, a few books on People’s Health movement issues and training manuals for Community Health Workers.
'Can we Reach the Goal of Medicines for All?' a talk by Dr. Anant Phadke at Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 17th February 2014
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