Viagra available for sale across the counter in medical shops in India

Chemists in south Mumbai are looking forward to the arrival of Viagra.

Their colleagues in the suburbs, however, are less enthusiastic. Stocks of Viagra were yet to arrive in any of these outlets, at least till this report was filed.

Viagra will be priced at Rs 460 per 50mg capsule and Rs 594 per 100mg capsule, almost 10 times costlier than the generic brands that have been available for at least five years.

“Those who can afford it are sure to try it at least once, even though the cost is prohibitive” said Ketan Shah, of Noble Chemists, Charni Road on Saturday. He believes the Viagra brand will sell briskly although cheaper brands are already in the market since long.

But the distributors of the product, through which Pfizer is supposed to route the new drug, have not yet approached him, Shah added.

Similarly, K Krishna of Royal Chemists, near KEM Hospital, Parel said there were many enquiries about Viagra, which gave him hope that the drug would become quite popular. But, he had no stocks with him.

A salesman in Manish Medical Stores, Borivali(west), also confirmed that they had still not received stocks of Viagra.

He was not sure whether many people would buy Viagra,“We will have to wait and watch,” he said.

Kailash at Noble Chemists, Santacruz (west) also agreed that nobody from Pfizer or their distributors had approached him.

He also stressed that Viagra was not stocked on his shelves.

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