{"id":19479,"date":"2024-01-18T10:56:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T05:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19479"},"modified":"2025-04-05T17:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T12:19:24","slug":"nedl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nedl\/","title":{"rendered":"National Essential Diagnostics List"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About National Essential Diagnostics List<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The NEDL lists the\u00a0essential and most basic tests that should be available at various levels of healthcare facilities in the country, including at the\u00a0village level, in sub-health centres, health and wellness centres, and primary health centres.<\/li>\n<li>The ICMR had released the\u00a0first NEDL in 2019 to make the availability of diagnostics an essential component of the healthcare system.<\/li>\n<li>The list includes general laboratory tests for a broad range of common conditions for the diagnosis of communicable and non-communicable diseases, disease-specific tests for HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis, dengue, malaria, and area-endemic diseases.<\/li>\n<li>India is the first country to release the NEDL.<\/li>\n<li>Since 2018, the\u00a0World Health Organisation (WHO)\u00a0recommends\u00a0the development and implementation of a\u00a0National Essential Diagnostics List (NEDL) to facilitate the availability of In-Vitro Diagnostics (IVDs) across the various tiers of the healthcare pyramid, facilities with or without a laboratory onsite.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What are Essential diagnostic tests?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are defined as those &#8220;that satisfy the\u00a0priority healthcare needs of the population and are selected with due regard to disease prevalence and public health relevance, evidence of efficacy and accuracy, and comparative cost-effectiveness\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The test should focus on conditions with a high disease burden or having significant public health relevance, where the introduction of a diagnostic test will have a clear impact on disease diagnosis and management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the World Health Organization (WHO) ?<\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0It is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) established in 1948 to further international cooperation for improved public health conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/icmr-starts-revising-current-national-essential-diagnostics-list-for-first-time\/article67744728.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>ICMR starts revising current National Essential Diagnostics List for first time<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Essential Diagnostics Lists the essential and most basic tests that should be available at various levels of healthcare facilities in the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}