(Adnkronos) - “Rafforzare le farmacie e dare una mano ai farmacisti può essere una risposta concreta di prossimità. Nel periodo Covid si è valorizzata figura del farmacista”. Lo ha detto Andrea Mandelli, presidente Fofi, Federazione ordini farmacisti italiani, in occasione dell’incontro ‘La Salute degli italiani tra tradizione, ripresa e resilienza’, uno degli appuntamenti del format ‘Principi attivi’, il ciclo di incontri promossi da Boehringer Ingelheim Italia per mettere sul tavolo le priorità irrimandabili della salute pubblica.
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00:00How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we work?
00:04I would say that the pandemic has clarified a context
00:08on which the federation has already been committed since 2005,
00:11that is, to strengthen the proximity
00:13to really think of a territorial assistance
00:17that can provide a response to patients.
00:19The bad experience of COVID-19 has certainly
00:22enhanced the figure of the pharmacist,
00:24who also thanks to the federal project of 2005
00:27has begun a path of evolution
00:29that could always make him the protagonist of the dispensation,
00:33but also the protagonist of a new phase,
00:35the one that we used to call the pharmacy of services
00:39or the polyfunctional center at the disposal of citizens,
00:42but which is now called proximity.
00:44So I think we can do a lot,
00:46but not in words, but with facts,
00:48with the numbers of electrocardiograms
00:50that we do every day,
00:52with the number of heart and blood pressure
00:54that we apply, with the number of tampons,
00:56with the number of vaccinations.
00:58In short, a pharmacist who is able,
01:00thanks to the cultural evolution of these years,
01:02to give something more to the Italian population.
01:05We have had an important involvement,
01:07I think great and also very interesting,
01:10which has involved the technological equipment
01:13of rural pharmacies,
01:15especially those more disadvantaged,
01:18the so-called subsidized.
01:20I believe that the economic equipment
01:24in that chapter would allow
01:26to involve not only subsidized pharmacies,
01:28but also rural pharmacies to cure.
01:31And therefore to really make sure
01:33that the Italy of the municipalities
01:35can give a service to the citizens
01:38that often, unfortunately,
01:40for the ever-lower numbers of sanitary
01:42at the disposal of citizens, often lack.
01:45So maybe reinforcing the pharmacies
01:48and giving a hand to the pharmacists
01:50could be a concrete response of proximity.