Jammu and Kashmir drug department on Thursday suspendedlicenses of four pharmacies outside the Sub District Hospital Sopore in northKashmir’s Baramulla district for compelling patients to purchase medicines fromtheir shops.
After receiving complaints regarding touting and compellingpatients to purchase medicine from their respective shops, the drug departmentconstituted a team of drug inspectors headed by drug inspector along with twodrug inspectors, said an official.
He said that the team raided the shops and suspended thelicenses of four retail medical shops.
“License of the four medical shops have been suspended tillfurther orders,” said the official.