Retail Pharmacy vs Online Pharmacy in Hyderabad
Online pharmacies have become popular in recent times. Because of this, the Central Government had set up a committee to explore the possibility of e-pharmacy or Online Pharmacy model in India. Hyderabad: The retail pharmacy store owners are at loggerheads with online medical stores that have deeper pockets and broader reach. With the Centre likely to make legal online medical stores by making it required to register, protests by retail pharmacy store owners against the introduction of online pharmacy in Hyderabad have become intense and urgent. It is difficult to control online pharmacies , which do not have a fool-proof structure to sell medicines online advised on doctor’s prescription. As of now, there is no appliance in place to control the online sale of narcotics, tranquilizers, schedule X drugs and psychotropic drugs. There are strict regulations on retail pharmacy stores, but the regulatory bodies do not have proper provisions to take any le...