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- The Central Government has asked the states to maintain the supply of medical oxygen smooth and hassle-free.
- Medical Oxygen is included in national list of essential medicines and also in the WHO list of essential medicines.
- Medical Oxygen is pure oxygen.
- It contains 99.5% of pure oxygen.
- Generally, the air we breathe contains 21% of oxygen.
- When the impurities in the atmosphere increase, the concentration of oxygen decreases.
- The National List of Essential medicines (NLEM) is a model of WHO List of Essential Medicines.
- The essential medicines are those medicines that satisfy priority health needs of the population.
- Tanzania was the first country in the world to compose a list of Essential Medicines in 1970.
- The WHO published essential medicines in 1977.
- The first NLEM of India was released in 1996.
- In 2018, the list was updated to 851 medicines.
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