Monday 4 January 2016

DGCI places Bans Online Sales of Medicines

Posted by Anshul Katiyar

DGCI (Drug Controller General of India) has place a temporary ban on the selling of medicines online. Drug Controller General of India has asked to all the states and union territory to ask all the electronic-pharmacy to story their services and pull-down until they are not asked to start their services according to Times Of India report.

But Even the ban most of big e-pharmacy like still running their services like 3g chemist.com, Netmeds.com, Online Doctor, Toppills, Medplussmart, Topgenericmeds, Candrugstore, Doctorsolve, Merapharmacy.com, Medidart.com, Planetdrugsdirect,  Pharmstore, NetMeds.com, Candrugs, Pharmlex according to Tark.in report.

The TIO cleared that ban is temporary and the  is Drugs Controller General of India waiting result from an expert committee which is running under the view of Dr Harshadeep Kamble, commissioner of the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration. 


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Why Ban is Pace on Sale of Medicines?

All know that online selling of medicines is one of tough task and has always been a big issue in India or as well as in abroad. The many controversies are created because many drugs are misused by peoples and these drugs are easily available on online portal. Before this incident, In May,2015 Maharashtra FDA pulls ban on Snapdeal for selling medicines online without getting prescriptions.
In December last year, The DCC, the chief part of DCGI (which mainly work in the making any rule or giving advices in may factor), had appointed a seven member Sub-Committee to analyse and deals with the all problems or issues arising in the sale of drugs on Internet.
Not only Snapdeal but many other online e-pharmacy stores are trying to expanding their business and they are continuously violating law which are made for selling drugs.
Some of these online website selling banned drugs on their stores and at this last year their is more 40000 complaints resisted in various government institutions.

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Startups are facing downside in this field.
Many of young startups are facing too much problems to starting with this venture, because the other big players are completely rich with huge funding and now the task of selling drugs on Internet is very hard and they need to come with much paper work and In these sector the easy of doing business is so much hard, Thats why startup founder are droping the this Idea.
So what do you think about this ban, do not forget to tell us via comment section below.

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