The province of A coruña has registered your first death from coronavirus among pharmacy staff, specifically a man who worked in a pharmacy in the Los Rosales neighborhood and who died last week. 19 workers remain admitted or in quarantine, as confirmed to Radio Coruña Cadena SER from the College of Pharmacists of A Coruña.
Since the beginning of the crisis, 11 pharmacy professionals, nine pharmacists and two pharmacy technicians have died after being infected with the new coronavirus, in addition to that of A Coruña, six were in Madrid and one in La Rioja, another in Granada, another in Ciudad Real and another in Alicante.
Specifically, in Andalusia there are currently 43 admitted or quarantined pharmacy professionals; in Aragon 14; in Asturias 6; in the Balearic Islands 11; in the Canary Islands 44; in Cantabria 4; in Castilla y León 58; in Castilla-La Mancha 85; in Catalonia 42; in the Valencian Community 37; in Extremadura 7; in Galicia 35; in Madrid 40; in Murcia 1; in Navarra 2; in the Basque Country 46; in La Rioja 16; and in Ceuta 2.
For all these reasons, the General Council of Pharmacists has highlighted the need for all pharmacists and pharmacy professionals to ‘exercise extreme’ caution, and has reminded the population of the need to follow the recommendations of the health authorities, going to pharmacies only when necessary.
Finally, the agency has underlined the importance of including pharmacists among health professionals who are screened for Covid-19.
Powerless before the demand for protection
Pharmacies denounce their impotence due to the inability to supply protective equipment to meet the demand.
The demand for products like masks has not stopped rising, nor have prices, up to 500% more than before the start of the health crisis. That’s why since the College of Pharmacists of A Coruña demand that the government intervene in the market to guarantee a supply accessible to all pockets.
“We have asked the Ministry to intervene on the price to alleviate these abuses by intermediaries and distributors. Not all of them, but the vast majority have increased prices due to the high demand for these products,” explains the president of the College of A Coruña, Héctor Castro.
Castro acknowledges that there have been changes in user behavior that we go to pharmacies, which no longer do it in an avalanche, or by standing on the counters, something to which the placement of protective screens has contributed.
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