The Union government should ban e-pharmacies as they are unregulated, Rajya Sabha member Kanimozhi N.V.N. Somu, representing the DMK, has said.
In a special attention address in the Rajya Sabha on Friday, Dr. Kanimozhi said that across the country, certain websites and e-pharmacies were selling medicines. The government had not evolved a mechanism to regulate or approve such facilities. There were no checks on the quality of medicines sold. Such sale was illegal and dangerous, and could wreak havoc on people’s lives, she said.
Also, the e-pharmacies and websites did not require prescriptions from registered medical practitioners. This could cause long-term damage to people’s health, she cautioned.
