Coronavirus Kits To Be Sold Only On Doctor’s Recommendation: Maharashtra Food Regulator
This strikes comes to stop hoarding and overpricing of coronavirus kits.
Thane:
The Maharashtra Food and Drug Management (FDA) has directed chemists to promote coronavirus kits simplest on docs’ prescription, an legit stated on Friday.
The FDA has began regulating the sale and garage of coronavirus kits to stop hoarding and overpricing, he stated.
In an order issued on Thursday, FDA commissioner Arun Unhale stated the Maharashtra govt and FDA had won a number of court cases of chemists promoting PPE kits and N-95 mask at costs upper than the MRP.
The FDA has additionally directed chemists to promote PPE kits and mask simplest on docs’ prescription, a spokesman of the FDA’s Konkan department stated.
FDA officers were directed to check out the inventory and garage of kits at production vegetation and provide chains and penalise those that hoard the apparatus, the order mentioned.
Whilst no certain case of the novel coronavirus has been detected in Maharashtra until now, the state govt is taking all precautionary measures and growing consciousness amongst other folks in regards to the fatal pathogen.
(Excluding for the headline, this tale has no longer been edited by means of NDTV workforce and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)
