Nicholas Piramal Setting Up Nationwide Drug Distribution Network
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Over the next two years, Nicholas Piramal India plans to establish a network connecting 100,000 remote Indian villages to supply drugs. Less than a third of India's population currently has access to modern drugs because of a lack of physicians and stores. The Nicholas network would connect health workers in the villages to doctors in the firm's network for prescribing drugs. The company also sells diagnostics services, which also would be involved in the network. (Click here for more