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State Minister Dugar to urge India to continue medicine export to Nepal



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By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Mar. 5: State Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies, Motilal Dugar, is flying to India to negotiate facilitation of import of medicines in Nepal.

Dugar informed TRN Online that he was visiting India to talk to the Indian government about prevention of possible shortage of medicine in Nepal.

Saying that India had asked a list of all-important medicines, Minister Dugar mentioned that he would be consulting about the same with the Indian government.

As India is about to halt export of medicines, considering the fallout of COVID-19, potential shortage of medicine in Nepal has increased. India has announed to limit export of generic medicine in the face of shortage of raw materials owing to disruption of industrial output in China due to COVID-19.