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Medicine and drugs dealers across Calcutta have appealed to the state government to intervene and find some way of stopping the growing trend of panic buying of certain medicines by a section of people leading to mismatch in demand and supply.
Most of these medicines, a certain variety of antibiotics, vitamin C and multi-vitamin tablets, are sometimes being prescribed by doctors to treat asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic Covid patients in home isolation.
Several medicine dealers said while a physician s prescription would be for a lone family member who has tested positive, a buyer would usually end up procuring the medicines in bulk for the rest of the family members often in anticipation that many others could be taken ill.