Emergency pharmacies to stay open further week

THE health authority’s emergency dispensing clinics will remain open for at least another week, chief executive Brendan Drumm has confirmed.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) had established dispensing facilities along the western seaboard, which was worst affected by the withdrawal of pharmacists from the State’s drug schemes two weeks ago.

The facilities have so far dispensed more than 25,000 medicines to more than 11,000 patients.