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“Despite high salaries, I have been looking for people for 11 years”: why small rural pharmacies are threatened with disappearance

2024-02-18T09:10:35.943Z

Highlights: The pace of closures is accelerating at the risk of amplifying medical deserts. “I come here to get the medicine prescribed by the doctor next door. Without that I would have to go to Auxerre,” summarizes a sixty-year-old. Move, expand and reinvent yourself to avoid disappearing. This seems to be the fate of small rural pharmacies for sale. This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 89% left to discover. Flash sale -70% on digital subscription I ENJOY IT Already subscribed? Log in.


These pharmacies are only profitable at the cost of arduous work. Enough to dissuade buyers. The pace of closures is accelerating at the risk of amplifying medical deserts.


Special envoy to Yonne,

“A customer dropped off some fruit jelly for you.

»

The preparer at the Millésimes pharmacy places the package intended for her boss in the back room, next to biscuits offered that same morning by another patient.

In Ligny-le-Chatel (Yonne), a small village of 1,200 inhabitants located 21 kilometers from Auxerre, patients take care of their pharmacist.

They know how much they owe him.

I come here to get the medicine prescribed by the doctor next door.

Without that I would have to go to Auxerre

,” summarizes a sixty-year-old.

With a pharmacist's diploma in hand, Julien Variot took over the small Millésimes pharmacy in 2012, then located in the town center.

Realizing that he had to change everything to ensure a future for his pharmacy, he moved it to the outskirts of the village, near a brand new health center.

It was completely rebuilt and, above all, enlarged.

Now modern, it offers a space where pharmacists vaccinate and conduct health interviews.

Another room is dedicated to orthopedics.

Move, expand and reinvent yourself to avoid disappearing.

This seems to be the fate of small rural pharmacies for sale…

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