PRELIMS PRACTICE QUESTION

Q. Which of the following statements are correct with respect to Employees' Provident Fund?

a)    The concept of essential medicines, first introduced by WHO in 1977, has now been adopted by many countries, non-governmental organizations and international non-profit supply agencies.

b)    The drugs in India’s NLEM are included in the schedule category and their price is regulated by the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority.

c)    A total of 1000 drugs find place on the list and the medicines have been categorized into 27 therapeutic categories.

d)    The 2022 NLEM includes four drugs that are still under patent — bedaquiline and delamind used in the treatment of multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis, dolutegravir used to treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and daclatasvir used in treating viral infections such as Hepatitis C.

1)    a and b

2)    b and c

3)    b, c and d

4)    a, b and d

Answer: Option 4.