Chemists and druggists down shutters in Madurai

Chemists and druggists crossed Madurai territory downed shutters connected Wednesday arsenic portion of the nationwide onslaught called by the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists against the online merchantability of medicine.

The members said online medicine income posed a superior menace to peoples’ wellness and lives. Youth were getting spoiled. Without adjacent getting a valid doctor’s medicine they were getting entree to medicines similar symptom relievers and utilizing them, which was dangerous, they said.

Highlighting the demands, the members said online medicine income should beryllium stopped instantly to support radical peculiarly the younker who were purchasing symptom relievers and different medicines online, regularisation of unethical nett margins and discounts connected life-saving medicines, and prevention of the merchantability of counterfeit drugs.