{"id":3755,"date":"2019-07-15T06:40:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T06:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","slug":"rehydration-salt-makes-list-of-essential-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/15\/rehydration-salt-makes-list-of-essential-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rehydration Salt Makes List Of Essential Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Daily Nation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World\nHealth Organization (WHO) has made a landmark decision of including a new\nco-packaged Oral Rehydration Salt (ORS) and zinc sulphate in its Model List of\nEssential Medicines for Children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will reinforce the lifesaving benefits of ORS and zinc together for pediatric diarrhoea management and achieving alignment with the long-standing recommendation for the use of both therapies as frontline practice. In most cases, the co-package has proven to be significantly less expensive than purchasing the two products separately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision\nfollows a global effort led by the Diarrhea Innovations Group committed to\nreducing the global burden diarrheal diseases to make ORS and zinc more\naccessible in low-resource settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChildren\nin some of the world\u2019s most vulnerable communities still die from diarrhea\nevery day. This ground-breaking decision from the WHO will save lives,\u201d said Dr.\nAndrew Murrison, the British International Development Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EFFECTIVE\nTREATMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both ORS\nand zinc are already listed as medicines used in diarrhea management, but as\nseparate items with no formal guidance related to the use of co-packaged ORS\nand zinc existed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Rehydration-salt-makes-list-of-essential-drugs\/1056-5195030-hmk6avz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation The World Health Organization (WHO) has made a landmark decision of including a new co-packaged Oral Rehydration Salt (ORS) and zinc sulphate in its Model List of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}