Pharmacovigilance in Nepal: Present Glance and Areas to Improve.
Abstract
As the global issues ponder upon the drug safety and Consumer pharmacovigilance, pharmacovigilance in Nepal started from year 2004, however is still at infancy stage. In this commentary we aimed to portray the past and present state of the PV in Nepal along with some of the international and resource limited countries situation along with the areas we can work upon for the effective adverse event reporting, assessment, monitoring and management which leads to the drug safety and quality medicine use in some context in the resource limited countries like Nepal.
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