Medical Shops To Remain Closed On May 30

Hyderabad: Drug stores in the city will remain closed on May 30 to join the nationwide one-day bandh against the union government's e-portal proposal which mandated every vendor and stockist should upload the details of each sale on the portal of the government in a stipulated time regularly.

Telangana Chemists and Druggists Association declared that the shops will remain shut from May 29 midnight to May 30 midnight across the state. There are over 6,000 store owners who are members of the TCDA and are expected to take part in the protest. The pharmacies attached to government hospitals will be exempted from the bandh.

The association leaders said that the proposed regulation pertaining to the entering of data of day-to-day purchase and sale and uploading the same on the online will be painful and laborious process for the vendors. The new system will create the shortage of medicines.

The All India Organization Of Chemical and Druggists is against the draft notification, issued by Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, to set up a website that will make it mandatory for all medical shop owners to upload daily data related to the sale of drugs and stocks.