Medical shops down shutters in Telangana
The 24-hour shutdown call was exempted to outlets located in hospitals where inpatient service is offered.
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2017-05-30 12:50 GMT
Hyderabad: Around 25,000 medical shops in Telangana downed their shutters today as part of the nation-wide protest against the "stringent" regulations on sale of medicines.
According to R Srinivas, general secretary of The Telangana Druggists and Chemists Associations, the 24-hour shutdown call was exempted to outlets located in hospitals where inpatient service is offered.
"All the medical shops are closed. Future course of action will be decided by the executive committee of the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD)," Srinivas said.
He said the chemists and druggist are opposing online sale of medicines and e-portal system introduced by the Centre under which sale of medicines should be uploaded.