Hyderabad, May 19 -- Hospital-attached pharmacies and corporate medical chains will remain open and drug inspectors will be on standby across Telangana on Wednesday, May 20, as the state's Drugs Control Administration (DCA) put in place emergency arrangements ahead of a one-day nationwide bandh called by the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) on the day.

Following a meeting with the AIOCD's Telangana chapter, the DCA said pharmacy stores attached to hospitals would continue to operate through the bandh day, while district chapters of the AIOCD would remain in close coordination with Drug Inspectors to ensure emergency medicine supply from local stores wherever needed.

Corporate pharmacy chains, including Apollo and...