People experienced a tough time on Thursday, particularly in the morning, as the medical store owners closed the shutters of their shops, protesting  against Nainital district administration’s action against some medical stores in the city. 

However, things eased after  the shutdown was withdrawn following dialogue between  the druggist and chemist  associations and the district administration held later. The shops opened  to the relief of the distressed people.

What proved the trigger for the shutdown call was  district magistrate, Nainital, Deepak Rawat’s order to shut two pathology  centres and  a medical  store on Wednesday afternoon during the routine inspection. DM said action was being taken in view of the labs failing to show licenses or valid documents during the inspection.

 This aside, DM took a serious note of a medical store in Nainital running sans pharmacy license. DM further  found  that  the person who was selling medicines from the store  and the one in whose name the license was issued were different. Besides, the store was found selling   Schedule H (prohibited) medicines. The store  was ordered to be closed. 

However, such inspections and actions following thereof angered  the druggists  and chemists here.It may be recalled that the  medical store owners had expressed ire over Nainital district administration going for  such an exercise  in Haldwani  on June 4.

Things followed after a private medical store in Haldwani had been sealed for irregularities.