**Q: What is the Eka MCP Server? **A: The Eka MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server facilitates interaction with medical knowledge-bases curated for the Indian healthcare context, providing structured access to information like branded drug details and treatment protocols.

**Q: What problem does the Eka MCP Server solve? **A: It addresses the lack of factual grounding in AI model responses and the absence of centralized repositories for Indian branded medications, ensuring more accurate and reliable AI-driven healthcare applications.

**Q: What are the key features of the Eka MCP Server? **A: Key features include Indian Branded Drug Search (access to 500,000+ drugs) and Indian Treatment Protocol Search (access to 180+ treatment protocols from authoritative Indian institutions).

**Q: What are the benefits of using the Eka MCP Server? **A: The benefits include improved medical accuracy, seamless workflow integration, reduced AI hallucinations, and integration with the MCP open standard.

**Q: How do I get started with the Eka MCP Server? **A: Obtain your developer key from eka.care, install the necessary components (like UV), configure the Claude desktop application with the server details, and then debug using the MCP Inspector if needed.

**Q: How do I obtain API credentials for the Eka MCP Server? **A: Reach out to eka.care at ekaconnect@eka.care to request your client-id and client-secret.

**Q: What is the MCP Inspector and how do I use it for debugging? **A: The MCP Inspector is a tool for debugging MCP servers. You can launch it via npm with the provided command, and it will display a URL to access in your browser for debugging.

**Q: What do I do if I encounter a ‘spawn uvx ENOENT’ error? **A: This usually means uvx is not installed or cannot be found. Install uv using the provided command, find the path to your uvx installation using which uvx, and update the configuration file with the full path to the uvx executable.

**Q: What if the latest version of eka_mcp_server is not being picked up? **A: Run the command uv cache clean eka_mcp_server to clean up the local cache and fetch the latest version.

**Q: What kind of tools does the Eka MCP server provide? **A: The Eka MCP server provides the medications tool suite and the Indian treatment protocol search.

**Q: Can I use this without an eka.care account? **A: No, valid API credentials from eka.care are required to access the medical information.

**Q: Is this service free? **A: While the MCP server code is open-source, access to eka.care’s APIs requires valid credentials. Free access is offered initially, but API usage will be charged in the future.

**Q: Which LLMs support MCP natively? **A: Currently, Anthropic’s Claude models have native MCP support, along with Cursor and Windsurf applications.

**Q: What is UBOS and how does it relate to the Eka MCP Server? **A: UBOS is a Full-stack AI Agent Development Platform that helps orchestrate AI Agents, connect them with enterprise data, and build custom AI Agents. Integrating the Eka MCP Server with UBOS allows developers to create AI solutions that leverage accurate, Indian-centric healthcare data.