Waiting to know if indirect assistance in Campania will be extended to the whole region, the situation does not seem to improve, on the contrary, tensions are increasing. To begin with, two pharmacists who did not comply with the protest were expelled from Federfarma, in addition to what was reported by the Mattino di Napoli some banks would have revoked the credit lines of pharmacists. This is why Michele Di Iorio, president of Federfarma Naples wrote to the president of "Commercio e Finanza Spa" «I understand that the company you manage has, in recent days, informed the pharmacy owners of its customers that it can no longer finance the requests presented by them due to the widely known default of the Region in relation to payments. (…) Please postpone an initiative which, by preventing the holders from ordinary supplies and exposing them to legal risks deriving from insolvencies, would force them to close their business, albeit temporarily, with further prejudice to the levels of pharmaceutical service». In the meantime, the joint project between Banco di Napoli and Mediafactoring aimed at providing credit to the pharmacy sector takes off with a ceiling of 200 million euro.
Pharmacist33 – 20 September 2010 – Year 6, Number 157
Neapolitan pharmacists one step away from the lockout
While in Naples the pharmacy dispute escalates and a total lockout is threatened, the case of banks blocking credit openings to pharmacist customers is increasingly frequent. «So far, there are already 160 banking institutions that have closed current accounts with Federfarma shareholders», says the president Michele Di Iorio, I am baffled in 40 years of activity and confrontation with the institutions, I had never found myself speaking with a rubber wall. Now» finally warns the president «we just have to lock out all the associated pharmacies: I will propose it on Tuesday (today for those who read ed) in the assembly».
Pharmacist33 – 21 September 2010 – Year 6, Number 158
