Nationwide Drugstores shut shop to protest e-pharmacy Wednesday Oct 14,2015

 

Indian drug retailers shut up shop for the day on Wednesday Oct 14,2015 to protest against the country's growing online pharmacy industry, and threatened to close indefinitely if the federal government did not shut down e-pharmacies.

The nationwide protest was widely supported, with as many as 850,000 chemists closing their doors, leaving patients waiting in long queues at any pharmacies that were open.

J.S. Shinde, president of the All India Organization of Chemists and Druggists which called the protest, said the retailers' trade group will consider an indefinite strike if the government does not stop online drug sales within two months

Shops inside and around hospitals as well as 24-hour pharmacies did not join in the one-day strike.