Pharma traders protest govt’s move to add e-pharmacy links to Aarogya Setu

The pharma trader’s body All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) is up in arms against the Central government allegedly promoting e-pharmacy firms through the AarogyaSetuMitr facility offered through its AarogyaSetu mobile application.

The Organisation has sought the government to de-link the AarogyaSetuMitr from the app.

The organisation today alleged that the NITI Aayog has added links to four e-pharmacy players through the www.aarogyasetumitr.in extension of the app, thus promoting the online pharmacies, which it calls as “highly illegal, arbitrary and discriminatory manner as a marketing tool app”.

J S Shinde President AIOCD said that its 850,000 members, their families and dependents, numbers run into over 3.5 crore are local,