One-day nationwide chemists' strike begins on mixed note

Key points

• The one-day strike called by All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) against unregulated practice and deep discounting by online players started on a mixed note, even as the body claimed total support from its members.
• AIOCD claims to represent 12.4 lakh chemists, pharmacists, and distributors and is demanding action against what it termed as “illegal” operations of online pharmacies.
• “All medical shops are closed...
• we are getting feedback from all our state branches that everybody is participating in this strike.
• We have not given stress to the nursing home pharmacies which are working there inside the hospitals,” AIOCD General Secretary Rajiv Singhal told PTI.