KNOW YOUR MEDICINE!!!!!

Link : Know Your Medicine

Welcome to the Know Your Medicine website! You will have the opportunity to understand more about your medicines, learn on the proper use of our medicines and apply our rights as the consumer of the medicines. This portal provides patient education materials to help us to take care of our health.

This portal also gives information to the consumers regarding the importance of taking the right medication.It is explained well using the 5R concept.

5R stands for:

* Right Patient

* Right Medicine
* Right Dose
* Right Route
* Right Time

         Consumers rights on medication is the most important aspect.As a consumer we should know out rights.Therefore,this portal gives a clear information regarding the rights on medication.There are total of 8 important rights that a consumer should know.They are,rights to basic needs,rights to information access, rights to choose,rights to safety,rights to redress,rights to be heard,rights to healthy and sustainable enviroments and rights to consumer education.

         This portal also provides a few publication for the consumers.Here they discuss about the imporatant health topics.For example,Self Care and Self Medication Guide.

         There are also few articles prepared for the view of the consumers.Through this as a consumer,we could gain knowledge regarding our medication and also one could clear their doubts.

At the same time,there also few multimedia information prepared for the view of consumers.This are prepared in the form of animation to give a better understanding to the consumers regarding the proper ways of using certain medication.For example,on how to use a nasal spray,inserting suppositories and pessaries and etc.


Lastly, Know Your Medicine website also provides online services,such as

* Looking for registered products
* Any questions about medicines
*BMI calculator
*Drug interaction checker
*Submit a product complaint
* Diseases and medicine