People want to buy medicines in bulk for various general ailments fearing a supply shortage in future For Shivnath Kumar, an executive working at a retail medical store in South Delhi, the biggest challenge at work these days is tackling panic buying of medicines by people anticipating a shortage, which serves as a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Kumar has been working at Global Healthline, which runs the retail chemist chain 98.4, for about seven years now, and he has rarely seen such behaviour.
Shortly after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement on Tuesday of a nationwide lockdown for three weeks, people formed long queues—albeit maintaining a safe distance from one another—at the doors of many chemists, including where Kumar serves. “No
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