Chemists’ body threatens to join lockdown, demands vaccination on priority
According to AIOCD, more than 650 chemists and pharmacists have died of Covid-19.
People in a queue outside a medical shop in Kolkata. (Express Photo: Partha Paul, File) A national organisation of over 9.40 lakh chemists has threatened that chemists across the country will go into lockdown, like other non-essential services, if they were not vaccinated on priority basis. All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) has said it will join lockdown so as to protect and save its members and claimed that they had been sidelined when it came to considering them a priority group for vaccination against Covid-19.
J S Shinde, president of AIOCD, said chemists and medicine distributors were on 24-hour duty since March 2020 as essential workers. “We have dispensed and distributed drugs since the pandemic struck, and while it was logical to vaccinate chemists as frontline workers, we were never considered for some reason,” Shinde said.
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