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Delivery of free corona self-tests in pharmacies will begin Monday. The population will be gradually supplied, but at the moment there are only kits available for 600,000 people, as the head of the Chamber of Pharmacists Ulrike Mursch-Edlmayr informed the Kleine Zeitung. “The delivery of free tests in the living room by pharmacies is a long-term project,” Thoma Veitschegger, president of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Pharmacists, said on Friday.
According to the broadcast, Veitschegger assumed that “ideally” it could initially supply 500,000 people. The pharmacies would be supplied successively. “Therefore, all citizens can assume that they will receive a test kit, but only gradually,” Veitschegger emphasized.
Five tests per person
Anyone who has an electronic card and is over 15 years old can buy five free self-tests at a pharmacy, depending on the plan. The “nose pick tests” are easy to use and should be used when meeting another person. Veitschegger asked “not to rush into pharmacies on the first day.” By mid-March, many more tests would be available than at the beginning of the campaign.
About three million individual tests are sent to pharmacies during the first week. This is a great challenge in terms of time and organization, as individual pharmacy tests in five-piece packs with explanatory information material still need to be prepared so that the tests can even be passed on to people.
About 300,000 of the 8.8 million electronic card holders leave empty-handed because they have left the electronic medical record (ELGA), reported the “little one.” Because without an ELGA connection to the electronic card, the pharmacist does not know if the person has already picked up a set from other pharmacies. The newspaper quoted the director of the SPÖ-affiliated retiree association Peter Kostelka: “Those who have exercised a right that corresponds to them will be punished.”
“Since the fall, SPÖ president Pamela Rendi-Wagner has been calling for such tests in the living room to be possible for everyone free of charge and for easy personal use,” SPÖ’s health spokesperson said on Friday. , Philip Kucher, by transmission. In January, the government focused on the concept. “As soon as the federal government begins to implement it, the next chaos erupts again,” Kucher said, criticizing the fact that the tests are not immediately available to everyone.
