Mangaluru: Medical stores remain shut
Mangaluru: As per the nationwide chemists’ strike call given by All India Organisation of Chemists & Druggists (AIOCD) against online sale of medicine through e-pharmacies, maximum medicine stores remained closed today.
Of 625 medical shops in the D.K district, some of the medical shops belonging to MedPlus were opened on Friday.
Speaking to ‘Varthabharati’ regarding this, Medical Association President Sridhar Kamat said, “8-10 medicine shops belonging to MedPlus Company remained open in Mangaluru. As we learnt this, we appealed to them. They responded positively and supported the bandh by pulling down their shutters."
“People cannot get information about the quality and method of using the drug if they buy it online. It is also possible to have side effects on the health of the patient. With the intention to convince the government, the bandh has been called. We were committed to providing emergency life-care medicine. As per that, several people called us to provide emergency medicines, and we have responded to them positively, said Kamat.
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3 killed, 15 injured as auto-rickshaw hits multiple vehicles in Thane
Thane (PTI): Three persons were killed and 15 others injured when an auto-rickshaw hit a bus and some other vehicles on a highway in Maharashtra's Thane district on Wednesday morning, police said.
The accident took place at 4.15 am on Mumbai-Agra highway near Khinavli bridge at Ghoteghar village in Shahapur taluka, they said.
The auto-rickshaw driver lost control over the wheels. As a result, the vehicle hit the road-divider, jumped the lane and collided with a private luxury bus, two cars and a tempo coming from the opposite direction, an official from Shahapur police station told PTI.
Three occupants of the bus died on the spot and 15 other persons, including the auto-rickshaw driver, were injured, he said.
The bus was on way from Nashik to Mumbai, the official said.
After being alerted, local police along with the emergency response teams rushed to the spot.
The injured persons were admitted to Shahapur sub-hospital and three of them were reported to be in a serious condition, the official said.
The bodies were sent to a government hospital for post-mortem, the police added.
