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Table 3 Numbers of different medicines stocked in health facilities

From: Availability, use, and affordability of medicines in urban China under universal health coverage: an empirical study in Hangzhou and Baoji

  

Hangzhou

Baoji

2009

2011

2013

2009

2011

2012

Primary health care centers

Total number of different medicines

735

453

449

264

336

358

Number of different medicines on NEML (percentage of total number)a

271

(37%)

235

(52%)

219

(49%)

166

(63%)

236

(70%)

246

(69%)

Number of different antibiotics

49

19

18

19

24

26

Secondary hospitals

Total number of different medicines

813

832

849

635

643

638

Number of different medicines on Insurance Reimbursement List

770

797

809

554

596

655

Number of different antibiotics

59

53

38

39

36

35

Tertiary hospitals

Total number of different medicines

930

957

992

730

750

876

Number of different medicines on Insurance Reimbursement List

808

841

913

677

716

805

Number of different antibiotics

66

51

51

68

47

48

  1. a The National Essential Medicines Policy in China allows primary health care institutions to choose the medicines on the NEML and the additional provincial/municipal list. Although primary institutions can only equip essential medicines on the two lists, they are not mandatorily required to equip all medicines on the lists. So the numbers of NEML medicines were less than 307 in 2009 list, and rest of the stocked medicines were from the municipal list
  2. NEML National Essential Medicines List