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Family pharmacy in danger
• AS councillors we would like the “control of entry” panel within the Primary Care Trust to take note of the groundswell of objections against the opening of the ABC Pharmacy in Camden Road, Camden Town.
If long hours of opening are considered necessary in an area of high need, then a pharmacy can ask for extended hours. The ABC Pharmacy’s managing director has asked for a “100 hour exemption” – 14 plus hours every day of the week. ABC Pharmacy stressed it opposed the 100-hour exemption in principle but decided to apply under the rules to meet patient need.
What need? Boots and JG Chemists in Camden High Road open at weekends. Also, we have a perfectly well-run, well-used and well-loved pharmacy just 100 metres from the proposed site.
Husband-and-wife team Jacquish and Hansila Vajhela not only provide a pharmaceutical service, but deliver medicines to the elderly, disabled and ill, plus checking up on their welfare and making sure they are responding to treatment.
This is an invaluable service which will not be provided by a shop within a large group where profit margins are the main incentive.
For the Primary Care Trust to agree to another pharmacy so close would not only drive this family out of business, but also be a monumental disservice to the surrounding communities.
CLLR PAT CALLAGHAN
CLLR NURAL ISLAM
CLLR FREDERIC CARVER
CLLR CHRIS NAYLOR
Town Hall, WC1
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