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Currently there are fears that if everything goes on schedule, some pharmacies will have to close or reduce their working hours starting next year due to a shortage of pharmacists working in pharmacies.
The Vilnius University (VU) and the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU), taking into account the invitation of the Chairman of the Health Affairs Committee, Antanas Matulas, to find the most favorable solution and the arguments expressed, presented a proposal to postpone 2012. By 2021, the provisions of the Pharmacy Law that at least one pharmacist must work during the working hours of a pharmacy was adopted. 1st of July
In the opinion of VU and LSMU, such a proposal acceptable to all interested parties would allow the problems to be resolved. In particular, in 2021. In June, 146 pharmacists completed their pharmacy studies at VU and LSMU. Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy of LSMU prof. According to Ramunė Morkūnienė, “such a number of specialists would make it possible to completely eliminate the shortage of 140 pharmacists currently publicly declared by the Lithuanian Pharmacy Association”.
Furthermore, with the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine in the spring and the relief of the epidemiological situation, there will be no real threat to the availability of drugs, which, according to Prof. Dean of the VU School of Medicine, prof. Algirdas Utkus, it could happen during the quarantine.
“An additional period of 6 months would allow pharmacies to restructure the activities interrupted by the COVID-19 situation and calmly prepare in the summer of 2012. Due to the changes foreseen in the Pharmacy Law”, says prof. A. Utkus.
Prof. R. Morkūnienė and prof. A. Utkus agrees that university communities, while respecting the principles of law enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania and other laws, must protect the interests of the whole society.
“The regulation of pharmaceutical activities, chosen at the time of accession to the European Union, must be guaranteed for all Lithuanians and from 2021. July 1, the right to receive a quality pharmaceutical service from a person with the adequate professional qualification – a pharmacist must be guaranteed ”, says the Dean of the VU Faculty of Medicine.
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