Pharmacy

Melih Ziya Sezer, owner of one of the oldest pharmacies in Istanbul's Moda district, has died at the age of 90. It has been reported that the 120-year-old pharmacy will become a museum after the death of Sezer, who has been healing for years in the pharmacy he inherited from his father.

Ljubljana – The Court of Audit has examined drug procurement practices in three public pharmacy chains to find that medicine procurement in the country is still in disarray and public pharmacies keep flouting public procurement rules.

The court issued an adverse opinion to Pomurske Lekarne, Lekarna Velenje and Lekarna Sevnica after examining their drug purchasing practices in 2020.

A 119-year-old pharmacy that witnessed the last periods of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the Turkish Republic continues to help people regain their health at a small, modest shop in Istanbul's Kadıköy district.

Pharmacists are reporting supply problems with nearly 650 drugs, from painkillers & cough syrups to treatments for asthma, influenza & cancer

The online pharmacy sector in Greece is galloping with a growth rate of + 27% in value in the third quarter of 2021, compared to the corresponding quarter of 2020.

Last week, the supervisory board of the National Health Insurance Fund decided that general practitioners could prescribe free medicines to treat patients with COVID-19.

Prescriptions will be electronic, but only health insured patients will be able to use them. Until now, such free prescriptions could only be prescribed by medics in the Covid Zone.

Koper – Pharmacies are and must remain a fundamental part of the healthcare infrastructure, which is providing a relatively good access to all treatment and care, says the newspaper Primorske Novice in Tuesday’s commentary, urging MPs to vote down the amendments to the pharmacy legislation.

Ljubljana – The National Assembly is meeting for the October plenary session on Monday to debate at first reading an omnibus bill on de-bureaucratisation and a long-awaited long-term care bill. Changes to pharmacy legislation and to the law on police work and organisation are also on the MPs’ agenda.

"There are 18 drugs on the home treatment list that the NHIF pays for. 9 of them are completely free, and 3-4 have long been missing from the market." This was said on Nova TV by Nikolay Kostov, chairman of the Association of Pharmacy Owners.

The first pharmacy with social enterprise status in Romania, which is operating in Sangeorgiu de Mures, the Mures County, started being more and more accessed by people who are struggling, due to the involvement of over 20 partners in services' financing.