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Pharma traders protest govt's move to add e-pharmacy links to Aarogya Setu

The organisation today alleged that the NITI Aayog has added links to four e-pharmacy players

Aarogya Setu, the contact tracing app which this high-powered team went on to build and is continuing to refine, is aimed at mapping the contacts of users by analysing GPS data
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The Organisation has sought the government to de-link the AarogyaSetuMitr from the app

Gireesh Babu Chennai
The pharma trader's body All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) is up in arms against the Central government allegedly promoting e-pharmacy firms through the AarogyaSetuMitr facility offered through its AarogyaSetu mobile application.

The Organisation has sought the government to de-link the AarogyaSetuMitr from the app.

The organisation today alleged that the NITI Aayog has added links to four e-pharmacy players through the www.aarogyasetumitr.in extension of the app, thus promoting the online pharmacies, which it calls as "highly illegal, arbitrary and discriminatory manner as a marketing tool app".

J S Shinde President AIOCD said that its 850,000 members,

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