Online pharmacies on hiring mode as orders during Covid-19 lockdown

Most e-pharmacies are operating with minimal staff and are not able to fulfill customer orders

The manpower crunch following the Covid-19 lockdown in India is not just limited to online groceries. Even online pharmacies are struggling to fulfill customer orders due to acute shortage of staff, especially for last-mile delivery. With the lockdown now having been extended, these e-health companies are now resorting to aggressive hiring in order to fulfill orders which have grown manifold during the past few weeks.

Gurugram-based 1 mg, for example, is immediately looking to hire 500 people immediately and another 1,000 over the next 2-3 months. Bengaluru-headquartered Medlife is working towards filling up 400 open positions mostly for last-mile deliveries