Children’s Right to Access Essential Medicines: Real or Rhetoric? “ Pediatrics does not deal with miniature men and women, with reduced doses and the same class of diseases in smaller bodies, but (…) it has its own independent range and horizon. ” – Abraham Jacobi, 1889 Owing to their immature physiological systems, drug response in children differs from that of adults. This necessitates pediatric-specific formulations. According to the latest census, 24%  of India’s populati