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India’s Health Ministry has initiated discussions with e-pharmacies and brick & mortar retailers and chemists on the way forward. Discussions held earlier in August saw chemists raise objections to deep discounting practices of e-pharmacies, while the Health Ministry officials were concerned about select practices of these e-pharmacies like allowing sale of medicines without proper prescriptions and so on. Maintaining privacy of user data across these platforms is another repeated concern that had cropped up during the meeting. The e-pharmacies were reportedly asked to present their case too. “The CDSCO (Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation)...