Chile Launches 1st 'People's Pharmacy'
Chile Launches 1st 'People's Pharmacy'
Published 12 November 2015 (9 hours 18 minutes ago)
Chile's first municipal pharmacy, in a poor neighborhood of Santiago, offers vulnerable people medicine up to 70 percent less the usual cost.
Residents of a poor neighborhood in Chile’s capital city Santiago will now be able to get the medicines they need at a much more affordable price, thanks to a new working-class municipal pharmacy.
The mayor of the Recoleta area of northern Santiago, one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city, declared the “People’s Pharmacy” a success on Thursday after launching it last month with the support of the country’s Public Health Institute.
“Today we can proudly say that this project has reached its goal and that in an act of collective love, solidarity, and responsibility on the part of the state we have inaugurated the first municipal pharmacy in Chile, which will allow all residents of Recoleta to access medicine that basic health does not cover, at prices up to 70 percent cheaper than in this market that thrives on sickness and death,” wrote Recoleta Mayor Daniel Jadue in a local newsletter on Thursday.
The new Ricardo Silva Soto People’s Pharmacy, named after the Chilean pharmaceutical student killed during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in 1987, currently serves 240 local residents through the “Health Solidarity” program, although service is expected to be extended in the coming months.
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