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Chemists to protest ruling on pharmacists.
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About 4,800 chemists affiliated to the Retail & Dispensing Chemists Association have decided to protest the decision, even though minister for food and drug administration (FDA) Anil Deshmukh is determined to implement it.
Association president Kishore Shah told TNN that his association would finalise its response on Friday.
"I have recommended a three-pronged course of action -a token strike, a strike by pharmacists and closing shops at 5 p.m. in tune with the Labour Act's eight-hour norm.'' If the government wants to enforce rules, why not implement all of them? he asks.
On paper, every shop has a pharmacist. "But when we inspect the shops we find that they are not there,'' says Mr Deshmukh. The government contends that medical shops use pharmacists only to sign their bills, but the pharmacists are never available to dispense medicines.
The state has around 32,000 medical shops and 60,000 registered pharmacists. Medical shop owners don't employ full-time pharmacists because of the high costs- pharmacists expect a monthly salary of Rs 10,000.
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