Community pharmacies have doubled their drug purchases for 2019

Despite the stagnation of its creation, community pharmacies will double their drug purchases for 2019 in accordance with purchase schedules with the National Supply Center (Cenabast).

As published. The Tercera 95 of the country's 148 stores have programmed purchases for 7.528 billion pesos or 123% more than what was purchased during that year, where 3 676 million pesos were was spent

Jaime Espina chief of Cenabast's operations department, stated that this "concerned the quantity of products purchased, rather than the number of pharmacies, ] since the number was maintained at 95 between 2018 and 2019. "

According to figures provided by the agency, the local requested 642 types of products being the most requested levothyroxine to treat the shot the ideas; pregabalin, for epilepsy; Celecoxib for Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain and Losartan for Blood Pressure

Pharmacists are among the major buyers; The Recipe, Maipú; Together with you, from Talca, and the pharmacy of Vitacura, Vitacura.

"This proves that the community pharmacy system is consolidated and positive, if I say that the average price is 10 times higher – cheap, it means that if I treat three billion, there are 30 billion that patients did not spend and that they were saved, the same with the seven thousand of 2019, "Espina said.