400,000 letters to support chemists

COMMUNITY pharmacists opposed to cost-cutting measures being introduced by the Health Service Executive on Saturday travelled to the Dáil yesterday to deliver more than 400,000 letters of support from the public to TDs.

Peter McElwee, a community pharmacist from Mountmellick, Co Laois, who was among the 50 pharmacists to travel to Dublin to deliver the letters, stressed that no medical card patients would be refused medication when the cuts were introduced.

“Most pharmacists feel a duty of care to their patients and will take the hit themselves on these reduced payments during the month of March,” he said.