Antibiotic sales drive domestic pharma mkt down 11.2% in lockdown-hit April

Sale of anti-infectives (11% of domestic pharma market) fell by 21.5%, while gynaecological and dermatological drugs fell by about 23%

After growing by almost 9 per cent in March when consumers stocked chronic medication out of panic, the domestic pharmaceutical market declined by 11.2 per cent year-on-year (YoY) in April. The prime drag on the market was the drop in sales of acute therapy medicines like antibiotics, apart from dermatology and gynaecological drugs that witnessed a sharp fall. 

According data from the market research firm AIOCD AWACS, the sale of anti-infectives (which comprise 11 per cent of the domestic pharma market) fell by 21.5 per cent, while gyanaecological drugs (around 5 per cent of the market) dropped by 23 per cent