{"id":678678,"date":"2026-05-19T01:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678678\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:51:09","slug":"call-helpdesk-for-meds-during-aiocd-strike-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678678\/","title":{"rendered":"Call helpdesk for meds during AIOCD strike tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/call-helpdesk-for-meds-during-aiocd-strike-tomorrow.jpg\" alt=\"Call helpdesk for meds during AIOCD strike tomorrow\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Chennai: State Drugs Control Directorate has asked district officials to ensure essential medicines are available to patients, ahead of a one-day nationwide strike called by All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) on May 20. AIOCD&#8217;s demands are: action against illegal e-pharmacies, withdrawal of a Covid-era notification permitting doorstep delivery of medicines, and curbs on predatory discounting by corporates that threatens independent chemists. Chennai helpdesk for if medicines are unavailable: M Sugumaran: 9841477526, S Lakshmi: 9884464549, B Sathishkumar: 9841947955, M Dillibabu: 9884179301 and K Punitha: 9003003693. Kancheepuram: P Vijayan: 9710313433 and M Yuvavrani: 8220602642, Tiruvallur: R Sasikumar: 9092504267 and R Iyappan 7010704350.tnn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chennai: State Drugs Control Directorate has asked district officials to ensure essential medicines are available to patients, ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[249367,49,48,5866,5865,5867,5868,249371,249368,84,249369,249370,377,5869],"class_list":["post-678678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-aiocd-strike","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chennai-latest-news","tag-chennai-news","tag-chennai-news-live","tag-chennai-news-today","tag-covid-era-notification-withdrawal","tag-essential-medicines-availability","tag-health","tag-helpdesk-for-medicines","tag-illegal-e-pharmacies","tag-medication","tag-today-news-chennai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}