Pharmacies closing as a result of regulatory dualism and legal disarray. Pharmacists out of work, pharmaceuticals down the drain, and the patients are the worst off

According to figures compiled by the Entrepreneurs and Employers Union, come December, Polish pharmacies were shutting down at a rate of one a day. Experts point out that this tendency has been largely constant since 2017, timing it to implementation of the “Pharmacy for Pharmacists” solution. This is only aggravated by the less-then-cohesive activities of the market regulators, which all too often end up contradicting each other. The Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Ombudsman (…)

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