Hi,
I'm the maintainer of freemedforms[1] and freediams[2] in Fedora. They're packages part of the fedora-medical SIG[3].
Currently, freemedforms/freediams does not contain a database for Indian drugs. In this condition, I'm unsure if we can even give them out to doctors for testing. The IMA does not seem to provide a public copy of the drug database. All I can find is a database on Medclik[4], which isn't free (neither in the monitory nor in the foss way).
I was wondering if any of you will be willing to look into talking to the IMA and getting them to release the drug database under a CC license. A few LUGs looking into this can certainly raise questions as to why such a database is not available to the public in the first place.
I'm not in India and it's therefore slightly difficult for me to undertake this myself.
I've found a few links, but the db is not available anywhere:
http://drugsindia.in/ http://www.ima-india.org/index1.html
[1] http://freemedforms.com/en/start [1] http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/freemedforms [2] http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/freediams [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/FedoraMedical [4] http://www.medclik.com/General/pages/others/medclik.asp
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Ankur Sinha