Protest in Vizianagaram over online sale of medicines

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Vizianagaram chemists and druggists relation  representatives staging a protestation  successful  Vizianagaram connected  Wednesday, asking the authorities  to halt  merchantability  of medicines done  online.

Vizianagaram chemists and druggists relation representatives staging a protestation successful Vizianagaram connected Wednesday, asking the authorities to halt merchantability of medicines done online. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

The members of Andhra Pradesh Chemists and Druggists Association staged a protestation astatine the Fort junction successful Vizianagaram connected Wednesday aft a nationwide onslaught called by the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD), demanding stricter rules for online medicine sale.

Association’s Vizianagaram territory president G. Srinivasa Rao and wide caput Motamarri Srinivasa Rao appealed the authorities to prohibition online merchantability of medicines, claiming that dense discounts by firm pharmacies are incurring immense losses for tiny and mean aesculapian shops.

Besides staging a protest, the relation members took up a motorcycle rally to the Collector’s office. Mr. Motamarri Srinivasa Rao said that each the pharmacists closed the aesculapian shops connected Wednesday arsenic portion of the protest.

Speaking to media, the district-level relation members said a fewer companies were providing medicines online aft generating fake prescriptions to pull the patients and household members.

The association’s treasurer, V. Satish, said that the tiny pharmacies were incurring immense losses with the small margins fixed by bulk cause companies.

Published - May 20, 2026 07:38 p.m. IST

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