Health Medical & Family Welfare Department- ACCESS TO FREE MEDICINES- Extension of use of APeRx App in respect of Anti-Hypertensive & Anti- Diabetic Drugs –orders-Issued

ORDER: 

In the Govt. Memo read above, Government have issued orders dispensing of Anti TB drugs through Registered mobile App- APeRx creating by Govt. of AP.   

2.    Non-communicable diseases like diabetes and hypertension lead to a significant amount of morbidity and mortality, a majority of which happens in low and middle-income groups. Due to the chronic nature of these diseases, out of pocket spending by poor to purchase these drugs aggravates the problem leading to low compliance to dosage schedule and also economic impoverishment. In this context, an economic study has been concluded by Kalam Institute of Health Technology (Health Technology Assessment Regional Hub, under ICMR, Dept. of Health Research, Govt. of India) which suggests marked improvement in clinical indicators for the patient as well as economic welfare to the patient’s families, if access to Hypertensive and Diabetes Drugs be given to all patients. 

3.      Government after careful consideration of the matter, the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh has decided to extend the use of APeRx App, for Anti-Hypertensive & Anti- Diabetic drugs. Accordingly, the citizens can avail a set of drugs approved for hypertension and diabetes any free of cost from private chemists/pharmacy in the state of Andhra Pradesh.  The cost of these drugs shall be reimbursed to the registered Pharmacist/Chemist/Druggist at rate at which APSMIDC procures the corresponding drugs for Government Hospitals.  The reimbursement to private chemists will be done directly by the e-Rx App into the registered bank account.  

4.      The free drugs in private Registered Pharmacies shall be made available after case evaluation by Physician/Specialist in all Government Hospitals (PHCs, CHCs, AHs, DHs and THs) and Government run PPP centers (eUPHC), based on the diagnostic test results done in these  Hospitals and centers, either through NTR Vaidya Pariskha or in-house diagnostics program. Similar benefit shall be available to employees subsequent to their diagnostic check-up in empanelled hospitals of government hospitals. It would be mandatory to have the tests done once every six months whereas private pharmacies would be enabled to prescribe drugs for one month at the time subsequent to APeRx based prescription by Doctors at Government health facilities or Urban Health Centres (eUPHC) that are operating in PPP mode. For Hypertension, the Blood Pressure shall be recorded and for Diabetes Mellitus, HbA1C shall be recorded after from fasting and post-meal blood sugar values as may be clinically indic

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