Centre to launch national portal for online drug sale
Why in the News?
The government seeks to launch a national portal for online sale of medicines dur to concerns of over-the-counter sale of prescription drugs and data misuse.
This was on the background of the Ministry of Health sending show cause notice to 20 companies such as 1mg, Flipkart, Apollo, Pharm Easy, Amazon and Reliance Net meds that sells medicines online.
Need for a National portal for drug sale besides other e-pharm stores?
National Portal for Online drug sale:
About:
Online National Drugs licensing system (ONDLS) portal