TABLE 3.
Procured antibiotics are categorised according to the World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines.25
| Antibiotic category | Number of antibiotics |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 01 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 | 01 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 | 01 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 | |
| Access | 17 | 19 | 19 |
| Watch | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Access and Watch | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Reserve | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Antituberculosis medicines | 8 | 10 | 10 |
| Total | 31 | 35 | 34 |
Source: World Health Organization. WHO Model List of Essential Medicines – 20th edition [homepage on the Internet]. March 2017 [cited 2018 Sept 23]. Available from: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/273826/EML-20-eng.pdf?ua=1