Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, October 16 2009:
Pharmacists outside the RIMS campus down shutter their shops today and staged a sit-in protest in protest against the opening three new pharmacies with 10 percent discount to all kinds of medicines inside the RIMS campus.
Three pharmacies out of six proposed to open inside the RIMS campus with an objective of supplying medicines to the patients at discount rate opened.
The pharmacies have started supplying medicines around two months back.
The opening of pharmacies inside the RIMS campus is like cutting the livelihood earning way of the pharmacies nearby the RIMS campus, pharmacists participating in the protest lamented.
Mention may be made that Manipur Chemist and Druggist Association has also suspended supplying medicines to the three pharmacies inside the RIMS campus from September 10 last.
Even after the drug supply has been suspended the pharmacies are still opening and supplying medicines to the patients at discount rates.
The protestors urged the authority not to cut the living earning ways of thousands of people in the interest of only few people.
They also alleged that RIMS authority is only for the rich section of people.
The protest will continue tomorrow also, they said.