Only Emergency Operation: Pharmacists Strike on Monday and Demand More Fee
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The pharmacy teams with more than 160,000 employees are campaigning for an end to the chronic under-financing of pharmacies and are fighting for an immediate increase in the pharmacy fee.The German Association of Pharmacists has proclaimed 23 March as a nationwide protest day.A dome is planned in Fulda. "We want to show our customers on site why we close - not just close the door", explains Dr. Christian Gerninghaus from the Sonnenapotheke Schli…
The fees at pharmacies have been at the same level for 13 years, but the costs are rising. Now the pharmacists are drawing attention to the maladministration. "We want to show what it looks like when we are not there," they say - and protest with closures.
Pharmacy protests paralyze many branches. Background: stagnant fees, economic pressure and increasing closures.
Pharmacies in our city close their pharmacies for one day and are there when protests will soon be held nationwide in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hanover and Munich. What patients should pay attention to.
An urgent warning has been issued to Germans: the strike announced by pharmacies for Monday will begin in one Western state, but could spread to the entire country. The pharmacists have called it in response to the lack of political measures despite their unfortunate situation.
Health insurers are firmly rejecting pharmacies' demands for higher fees and accusing them of operating with false claims. Referring to a nationwide day of protest by pharmacists' associations on Monday, which will include all-day closures, Stefanie Stoff-Ahnis, vice chair of the umbrella organization of health insurers, told the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND): "The myth of stagnant remuneration since 2013 is untrue." She stated that annua…
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