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The need of a national level drug database has been recognized as a priority by the government in recent times. Even though it has gained government's attention it will take some time for a national level Drug Index to be available. Hence, we recommend the use of National Formulary of India (NFI) as a standard drug database. NFI has been adopted from World Health Organization (WHO) Model Formulary. For the promotion of rational use of drugs, the Indian Pharmacopiea Commision publishes National Formulary of India (NFI) at regular time intervals. The Formulary enlists the generic drugs, their classification, dosage, availability, indications, contradictions,precautions. To facilitate the use of NFI, the branded drugs can be mapped against the specific generic drugs or generic drug combinations and use relevant MDDS data elements and Code directories to prescribe their usage in a standardized format.  CSV Format NFI:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vJUIWg971MIVreMrbBhZ3cQ--IpL_bG0/

  Download the Full Report Here. A federated health worker registry is proposed that will be maintained by the Central  Government and will store “identified minimum required informative fields” and will assign  a “unique identification number” for every ASHA worker. The ASHA registry will have  pointers to the state ASHA enrollment repositories or databases (DBT, HR etc) that will  push relevant data to the central registry for every new ASHA enrollment, any information  updation or change in employment status or location. Whenever a new ASHA health worker gets selected for final recruitment, gets enrolled  through an online common cloud-based portal or application by a trained staff appointed  by the district health dept or a private enrollment agency at the PHC or assigned anganwadi  center maintained at village or district level.  The enrollment process mandates ADHAAR card number authentication with the UIDAI  and assigns a unique health worker identification number in the central