All India Organization of Chemists and Druggists

All India Chemists and Druggists association urges members to ensure adequate stock supplies in border states

adminMay 12, 202504 mins

[ad_1] New Delhi: The All India Organization of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) have directed all its 1.2 million members, particularly, stockists, wholesalers and retailers to maintain adequate stocks life-saving drugs and pharmaceutical items in border states. Also Read | Trump’s drug-price cut plan triggers share drop: Will Indian pharma be impacted? AIOCD has asked its…

India should permit easier access to over-the-counter medicines

adminMay 6, 202506 mins

[ad_1] The liberalization of India’s economy, as tracked by an embrace of free-market principles, has been rather slow in chipping away at old precepts of a nanny state. We should thus welcome the government’s effort to ease the retail availability of medicines that can safely be sold over the counter (OTC): i.e., without a doctor’s…