Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Medical store owners continued to protest the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) raids on Friday following the cough syrup deaths in Chhindwara.

The protest is over incompetent people being included in raid in teams and medical store owners being given only 24 hours to furnish details of sale records of cough syrups. There are 41,000 medical stores in Madhya Pradesh and 4,000 in Bhopal district.

General secretary of the All India Organization of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) Rajiv Singhal said, “The medical store owners are not against any raid to seize the killer cough syrup in stock. They are protesting against incompetent people like ASHA workers and others sent to raid the medical stores. FDA, NHM, health department and the district administration are compe

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