The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Thursday, 4th June, said it will open public medical stores at its centres across the country to help the people find medicines relating to common ailments. The first store will be inaugurated in the national capital-based IMA headquarters by Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers Hansraj Gangaram Ahir. "The public medical stores will be set up first on the premises of the IMA headquarters and depending on its success, similar stores will be started at the organisations' centres in other states of the country," IMA vice president KK Aggarwal said.
He said that initially, the centre will have 119 medicines related to common health ailments such as blood pressure, cough, heart problems, among others. However, once it gets the nod from the government for other medicines, the stores will have medicines related to all major diseases. "We…
