Health plans to authorize the sale in pharmacies of antigen tests without a prescription soon | Radio Mallorca | Present

The Ministry of Health foresees authorize the sale in pharmacies of antigen tests without a prescription soon. It is a measure that already had its approval, as well as that of the autonomies of Spain, but that It is still pending evaluation by the Council of State. The next step would be to approve it in the Council of Ministers. For this reason, Antoni Real, president of COFIB, the Official College of Pharmacists of the Balearic Islands, prefers to be cautious in this regard, since it does not have to be imminent. “Until now it may be at the end of this next week, but there are still steps to be taken “, has highlighted.

In any case, it is a request that the sector has been raising to the administrations for months. This type of COVID screening test It is already dispensed in pharmacies but with the pertinent prescription, therefore, and as Real has pointed out, “this product has hardly been marketed.”

Another of the requests of the sector was to be able to carry out the antigen test itself in the establishments and that they could have a certain momentary validity for, for example, in cases of travel. “We would have gone a step further to do this type of test and have it valid, as well as communicating the possible positives to the administration, “he indicated.

The possibility of conducting screening has also been one of the requests that was put on the table and that in some provinces of Spain it was carried out. It was not the case of the Balearic Islands. “We try to do consensual screening in pharmacies, something that has been done in some provinces of Galicia, also in Madrid and Girona, but we didn’t get to do anything “, Real explained.

Regarding the cost, Antoni Real has stressed that “it is a free price product and that each establishment will decide”, even so believes that “it will oscillate between 10 and 15 euros”.

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