Bulovka Hospital: The night pharmacy is ending!
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In Prague, the number of pharmacies with night emergency services has decreased, there will be nine of them. Due to the lack of pharmacists, the Bulovka University Hospital night pharmacy will be closed from Monday, you will send a press release on Wednesday. The shop on Bulovka will continue to be open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. According to data from the Czech Chamber of Pharmacy (ČLnK), there are less than two dozen pharmacies operating at night in the Czech Republic, and there are none in the Karlovy Vary, Ústí, Liberec, Central Bohemia, Pardubice and Zlín regions and the Vysočín region.
“We were forced to limit operations due to a lack of pharmacists,” stated the commercial deputy director of Bulovka, pharmacist Pavel Šroub. According to him, the hospital offers very good working conditions, including a recruitment allowance. “It is very difficult in the labor market to get new pharmacists and fill them in night shifts,” he added.
The capital city has 1.33 million permanent residents, in reality, according to estimates, about 250,000 more people live in the metropolis. According to the information on the website of the Prague municipality, other pharmacies with emergency services are in hospitals in Motola and Krč, at polyclinics in Palackého Street in the center of Prague, in Šustov in Southern Town, in Plananské in Malešice and others on Victory Square in Dejvice, on Františka Křížka Street in Letná and on Peace Square in Vinohrady. The Czech Chamber of Pharmacists also lists a pharmacy in the Na Františku Hospital.
For the approximately 9.2 million people with permanent residence outside Prague, there are another eight pharmacies with night emergency services. According to ČLnK, there are two figures in Ostrava and Pilsen, one each in České Budějovice, Brno, Olomouc and Hradec Králové.
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Author: Profimedia.cz