The entry of joint-stock companies into the ownership of pharmacies will see the owners forced to try to increase their profit, abandoning their professionalism and conscientiousness in favor of an exaggerated liberalism and transforming themselves into unscrupulous traders for whom the health of citizens will be the priority. last of thoughts.
Of Editorial board | August 24, 2016 | THE PAPER
The measure which introduces a ceiling of 20 per cent on the entry of joint-stock companies into the ownership of pharmacies will hand over the entire pharmaceutical care chain to multinationals and large-scale retailers, as has happened for other commercial categories, reducing the role of many professionals, who work in defense of citizens, to simple "committed" employees. A role that does not at all coincide with the investment of large capitals, which defends the interests of finance, whose sole objective is to grab important shares of the entire national market. It will also be a war between the poor because the pharmacy owners who manage to save themselves, in order to survive, will initially be forced to increase their profits, abandoning their professionalism and conscientiousness in favor of an exaggerated liberalism and turning into unscrupulous traders for which the health of citizens will be the least of thoughts. And in all likelihood, in the long run, as they no longer have sustainable remuneration, they will be forced to sell their establishment to the large chain next door.
Toti Amato, president of the Order of Doctors of Palermo, 2 August 2016
