{"id":681454,"date":"2026-05-19T19:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681454\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:47:10","slug":"fda-control-rooms-in-marathwada-to-tackle-chemists-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681454\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200bFDA control rooms in Marathwada to tackle chemists\u2019 strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/pharmacy1jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\u200bFDA control rooms in Marathwada to tackle chemists\u2019 strike\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has set up control rooms across eight Marathwada districts ahead of a nationwide chemists\u2019 strike on Wednesday to ensure patients can access essential medicines during the shutdown.V V Nangare, the FDA assistant commissioner (Drugs), said patients facing difficulty in procuring medicines should immediately contact designated district officials. \u201cIf patients are unable to procure medicines during the shutdown period of medicine shops, or if a need for essential medicines arises, they should contact the officials appointed in their respective districts,\u201d he said.According to an official release, control room contact numbers have been activated in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (8983290162, 7387561343, 9021899018), Jalna (8379016068), Parbhani (9405783636), Hingoli (9405783636), Beed (9423749616), Nanded (8369027068), Dharashiv (8275175232, 8830801806) and Latur (8275175232).The strike has been called by the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists to protest against alleged unregulated online sale of medicines, deep discounts offered by e-pharmacies and certain govt policies.Sheikh Muhammad Naaz, a chemist from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, said the protest would serve as a warning. \u201cWe will escalate the agitation if need arises. Govt will be responsible if any harm is caused to patients,\u201d he said.Authorities said the control rooms will remain operational to handle emergencies and ensure timely access to medicines during the strike period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has set up control rooms across eight Marathwada districts ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[30059,64,63,328594,328607,328598,328590,328596,328605,47681,328602,328588,155639,82211,137,328593,328591,328597,328589,490,328600,328595,328599,328603,328592,328601,328606,328608,328604],"class_list":["post-681454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-all-india-organisation-of-chemists-and-druggists","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beed","tag-chemists-and-suppliers","tag-chemists-strike","tag-chhatrapati-sambhajinagar","tag-dharashiv","tag-e-pharmacy-discounts","tag-essential-medicines","tag-fda-assistant-commissioner-drugs-vv-nangare","tag-fda-control-rooms","tag-food-and-drugs-administration","tag-government-policies","tag-health","tag-hingoli","tag-jalna","tag-latur","tag-marathwada","tag-medication","tag-medicine-shops-shutdown","tag-nanded","tag-nationwide-strike","tag-online-sale-of-medicines","tag-parbhani","tag-patient-access-to-medicines","tag-sheikh-muhammad-naaz","tag-token-agitation","tag-unregulated-e-pharmacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}