Dijon: Pharmacy Strike: Rush for Understanding Customers

On Saturday, August 16, customers flocked en masse to the few pharmacies open in Côte-d'Or during the protest movement launched in response to the announced reduction in discounts on generic drugs. For example, in Dijon, where only two pharmacies were requisitioned.

At the end of the morning, around thirty people were queuing outside the Pascal pharmacy, which had been requisitioned on this day when almost all pharmacies were exceptionally closed. Photo G. G. — At the end of the morning, around thirty people were queuing in front of the Pascal pharmacy, requisitioned on this day when almost all pharmacies were exceptionally closed. Photo GG

Around the pharmacy on Boulevard Pascal in Dijon, several cars are riding the sidewalk. A queue of around thirty people has already formed in front of the pharmacy on Saturday, August 16, as the morning draws to a close. Customers are milling about because the establishment is one of only two pharmacies in Dijon open—at the request of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) —on this day of mobilization by the profession, up in arms against a decree providing for the reduction of discounts on generic drugs. A measure which, according to the Union of Pharmaceutical Trade Unions...

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