ICMR starts revising current National Essential Diagnostics List for first time
- January 17, 2024
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ICMR starts revising current National Essential Diagnostics List for first time
Subject: Science and Tech
Section: Health
Context:
- The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has begun the process of revising the current National Essential Diagnostics List (NEDL), saying that considerable time has passed since the first list was released in 2019.
More about News:
- The World Health Organisation (WHO) released the first edition of essential diagnostics list (EDL) in May 2018. Even though WHO’s EDL acts as a reference point for development of national EDL(NEDL), India’s diagnostics list has been customised and prepared as per landscape of India’s health care priorities.
- In India, diagnostics are regulated under the regulatory provisions of the Medical Device Rules, 2017.
- Diagnostics (medical devices and in vitro diagnostics) follow a regulatory framework based on the drug regulations under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and Drugs and Cosmetics Rules 1945.
National Essential Diagnostic List
- Level of Healthcare: NEDL has been developed for all levels of health care – village level, primary, secondary and tertiary care.
- It builds upon the Free Diagnostics Service Initiative (FDI) and other diagnostics initiatives of the Health Ministry to provide an expanded basket of tests at different levels of the public health system.
- FDI was launched in July 2015. Under this initiative, the National Health Mission (NHM) is supporting all states to provide essential diagnostics – laboratory and radiology at their public health facilities, free of cost.
- Scope: It includes a group of general laboratory tests for routine patient care and for diagnosis of communicable and non- communicable diseases.
Indian Council of Medical Research
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