Jalandhar : Medicine shops in to open from 2 pm to 5 pm every day
By SK.Vyas
Jalandhar, March 29, 2020: In order to cater to the needs of the patients in dire need of medicines, the district administration has decided to open the retail medical shops for emergency patients from 2 pm to 5 pm daily in the afternoon.
In the orders passed today, the Deputy Commissioner Jalandhar Varinder Kumar Sharma said that the retail medicine shops in the district would remain open during the above-mentioned timings. However, he said that this would not be a relaxation in curfew but was a move to facilitate only emergency patients. Sharma said that the move comes with riders that only one person from a family would be allowed to take medicine in an emergency, social distancing would be maintained at shops and others. He said that the move was primarily aimed at facilitating the people in dealing with emergency health problems adding that in case of violation of norms by people restrictions on the opening of shops would be reimposed.