Morbidity profile, prescribing patterns and working of the community drug programme in a health post in Western Nepal.
The study was carried out at the Naudanda Health Post over a two-month period (July 15, 2000, to September 15, 2000). The objectives were to obtain information on the demography of patients, morbidity, drug-prescribing patterns and the working of the Community Drug Programme. Acute respiratory infections were the most common illness. Paracetamol was most commonly prescribed and 80.6% of the drugs prescribed were essential drugs.
Shankar
Ravi P
RP
MD, Department of Pharmacology, Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal.
Kumar
Pawan
P
Rana
Manu S
MS
Shenoy
Nagesh
N
Partha
Praveen
P
Dubey
Arun K
AK