3.4 WHO prescribing indicators:
Total prescribed drugs were 1643 in which the average number of drugs encountered per prescription were 8.21, the percentage of encounters with antibiotics were 308 (18.74%), the percentage of encounter with injections were 897 (54.59%), the percentage of drugs prescribed by generic name were 205 (12.47%), and the percentage of drugs prescribed from EDL were 1367 (83.20%) which are comparable to other studies.11 (Table 4).