Essential Medicines and Health Supplies List for Uganda ...

MINISTRY OF HEALTH

REPUBLIC OF UGANDA

Essential Medicines and Health

Supplies List for Uganda (EMHSLU)

2016

Published by the Ministry of Health Uganda

First edition: 1997

Revised: November 2012, December 2016

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MINISTRY OF HEALTH

REPUBLIC OF UGANDA

Essential Medicines and Health Supplies

List for Uganda (EMHSLU)

2016

Contents

Contents

FOREWORD.............................................................................. 1

PREFACE................................................................................... 3

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................ 5

ABBREVIATIONS ......................................................................13

INTRODUCTION TO EMHSLU 2016 ..........................................17

STRUCTURE OF EMHSLU 2016 .................................................19

COMPOSITION OF THE EMHSLU ..............................................21

CHANGES TO THE EMHSLU 2016 .............................................23

AMENDMENTS ........................................................................31

SECTION A: ESSENTIAL MEDICINES LIST 2016 ..........................33

General anaesthetics and oxygen ............................. 33

Local anaesthetics ..................................................... 33

Preoperative and peri-operative medication ........... 34

Non-opioids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory

drugs (NSAIDS) .......................................................... 35

Opioid analgesics ...................................................... 35

Medicines for other common symptoms in palliative

care ........................................................................... 35

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