President Fofi Andrea Mandelli
Conasfa, drug-pharmacist inseparable combination
The failure to affirm the indissolubility of the "Drug - Pharmacist" link during the hearing before the 12th Senate Health Commission on the subject of the reorganization of the sector by President Fofi Andrea Mandelli worries Conasfa. In fact, the Coordination of Non-Titular Pharmacists' Associations deems it acceptable that "the main objective of the reform should be to allow the opening of a significant number of pharmacies, to ensure that the pharmacist finds his rightful professional position, as well as to increase the level of service rendered to citizens" but also believes that among the supplementary proposals to the text of the As 863 the principle according to which where there is a drug there must be a pharmacist must be reaffirmed.
Being Pharmacists insists: special derogation for parapharmacies 
If last Sunday, from the Nuova Fiera Congress Center in Milan, Federfarma reiterated its no to amnesties or preferential corridors for parapharmacies, among the acronyms that represent neighborhood businesses there are instead those who marry precisely for this hypothesis. This is the case of Being Pharmacist (EF), whose president, Alessandro Mazzacca, returns in this interview to talk about the reorganization and fate of parapharmacies.
President, Federfarma says no to amnesties for neighborhood exercises, but you insist. Why?
The proposals for the reorganization of the service currently under discussion in the Senate envisage the opening of a few thousand new locations on the one hand, while penalizing parapharmacies on the other. See, for example, the shift of a few drugs from range C to Sop which would only favor large-scale distribution. Furthermore, the envisaged assignment of pharmacies through competitions, even if with increased points, would in any case see pharmacists who own parapharmacies penalized compared to their pharmacy colleagues.
What does Being Pharmacists propose?
Through a special derogation, allow all pharmacists who own parapharmacies to convert the structure into a pharmacy. TO
