Imperative to maintain supply of essential medicines and prevent black marketing and hoarding: PM

New Delhi:  Stressing that pharma producers and distributors have a crucial role to play in combating the challenge of coronavirus in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that not only does the industry need to ensure maintenance of supply lines of essential medicines, medical kits and equipments, but at the same time should try to come up with new and innovative solutions.
Interacting with the leaders of Pharma industry via video conferencing, the PM asked the medicine retailers and pharmacists to be on constant vigil to ensure that black marketing and hoarding of medicines is avoided and supply of essentials maintained. He suggested that wherever feasible, supply of medicines in bulk may be avoided.
The PM said that the government is committed to helping the industry in maintaining supply of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API), underlining the importance of manufacture of such APIs within the country.