Govt allows doorstep delivery of drugs to help citizens under lockdown

To help citizens locked down in their homes, the Ministry of Health on Thursday allowed doorstep delivery of drugs.
 

The health ministry invoked section 26B of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 to facilitate the doorstep delivery of drugs to consumers. “Central government is satisfied that retail sale of drugs to the doorstep of consumers is essential to meet the requirements of emergency arising due to pandemic COVID-19 and in the public interest, it is necessary and expedient to regulate the sale and distribution of drugs for their delivery to the consumers,” it said in the notification.
 

It added that