ETtech Explainer: Impact on e-pharmacies on govt’s review of doorstep medicine delivery

India’s top drug advisory panel – the Drug Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) – has formed a sub-committee to review a 2020 notification that allowed doorstep deliveries of medicines. This notification, which was issued during the Covid-19 pandemic, has become the latest bone of contention between offline pharmacists and digital drug delivery platforms.The All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD), representing 1.24 million chemists and distributors, has been demanding the withdrawal of the doorstep delivery of medicines, alleging…