ES Reporter

ITANAGAR, May 30:Common public particularly patients  on Tuesday faced a harrowing time running from one pharmacy to another to buy medicines in the State capital as all the Pharmacies remained shut down for 24 hours in solidarity with the nationwide strike called by its parent body, All-India Organization of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD), against the Centre’s plan for online supply of medicines.

The AIOCD is seeking rollback of decision of online sale of medicines, especially ban on sale of dangerous drugs through online pharmacies on different websites, besides to draw the attention of the government about the consequences of the e-pharmacy initiatives that includes threat to jobs of lakhs of pharmacists and medical shop assistants across the country.

Almost all wholesale and retail drug vendors established across the capital complex downed their shutters, however few medicines stores run by government and private diagnostic centers were open at few places.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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