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Canadian press
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Canadian retailers have partnered with Alberta University to offer the state's first pharmacist-led health clinic as part of a pilot project. According to
Loblaw Companies Ltd., the walk-in clinic available to patients on Monday is located in the Real Canadian Superstore in Lesbridge.
Jeff Leger, Loblaw's pharmacy director and president of Shoppers Drug Mart, states that Alberta pharmacists are in a unique position to ease some of the burden on the state's medical system.
State pharmacists can evaluate, prescribe, treat, vaccine and assist in the management of chronic diseases for a variety of common illnesses and injuries. increase.
Health Minister Jason Copping, who attended today's announcement at Lesbridge, said in his statement that the clinic would be a place where people could get help quickly and easily.
He states that it helps increase access to primary care, which is a major challenge for the state's healthcare system.
Copping says the state is also working with Alberta Health Services to recruit more family doctors in places such as Lesbridge.
