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The Andhra Pradesh Chemists and Druggists Association (APCDA) has appealed to the nationalist to bargain their regular medicines successful advance, up of a nationwide bandh connected May 20, 2026.
The bandh was called by the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists, a assemblage representing 12.4 lakh chemists and druggists crossed the country, successful protestation against the State’s inaction against e-pharmacies, which the assemblage termed a substance of superior concern, and the predatory pricing and heavy discounting practices of ample pharmaceutical companies.
Addressing a media league connected Wednesday (May 13, 2026), APCDA President P.V. Ratnam besides demanded the withdrawal of exigency notifications issued during the Covid-19 pandemic, erstwhile requirements specified arsenic producing the archetypal medicine and different ineligible safeguards were relaxed.
Describing the bandh arsenic an inevitable measurement to bring unit connected the authorities to safeguard the livelihood of druggists, the members cautioned the nationalist to banal up connected their required medicines successful advance.
