“The experimentation of the new Community Pharmacy services has also started in the Matera area, made possible by a Resolution signed by the Commissioner of the ASM of Matera Maurizio Friolo following the Acknowledgment of the Protocol and the Technical Specifications included in a regional determination dating back to last November .” This is what Federfarma writes in a note which continues: “An innovative model of healthcare services is thus coming to life which can be carried out at the so-called ‘service pharmacies’ where people will no longer go only to purchase medicines and over-the-counter products but also to undergo important tests to diagnose them in time. some pathologies. In fact, at all participating pharmacies, you will be able to take advantage of tests such as cardiac and blood pressure Holter tests, electrocardiograms, simple spirometry, or all those services for which the waiting lists at healthcare facilities are not very fast. The reports will take place electronically thanks to the connection with the specialist diagnostic centres. To date, screening for type 2 diabetes, screening for COPD – chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – and hypertension can also be carried out at the service pharmacies. Federfarma Basilicata reminds all citizens that in this experimental phase only users who are exempt from paying the ticket for pathologies related to the services to be performed will be able to access the service and that to undergo the examination they must be in possession of a referral from the treating doctor, even dematerialized. The pharmacies participating in the trial and displaying the appropriate poster represent more than 60% of the Lucanian territory, with 71 municipalities out of a total of 131 covered. Specifically, in the fifty municipalities of the province of Potenza (out of a total of 101) a total of 83 pharmacies have participated while in the twenty-one municipalities of the province of Matera (out of a total of 31) a total of 43 pharmacies have participated.”
For the President of Federfarma Basilicata Antonio Guerricchio “the numbers of participating pharmacies represent excellent data which can only improve in the coming weeks with the participation of other professionals. At present it is clear that the capillarity of the pharmacy network is an important reality, an essential fact in the reform of local healthcare”. The President of regional Federfarma recalls how “the pharmacy has multiple roles to which it always responds with efficiency and effectiveness: it ensures assistance and dispensing of medicines and health aids 24 hours a day, it is organized with a network of multiple deliveries from medicine depots which allows requests to be satisfied in a few hours . Furthermore, with the agreements on the delivery of medicines from the hospital-territorial handbook, citizens suffering from particular pathologies are allowed to collect the medicine from the nearest pharmacy without having to travel and wait at hospital facilities. Another important aspect of the role of pharmacies is also given by the availability to administer flu vaccines and more.” “Too many times in this region with questionable measures- concludes Guerricchio– we have seen the role of primary healthcare facility degraded on the territory. We hope that what has been achieved in this last period, albeit with difficulty, will be consolidated in collaboration with the new regional administration”.
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