COVID-19is putting a strain on pharmacists.
London Drugs Pharmacy and Healthcare Innovation Vice President Chris Chiew addresses the ever-growing task of current pharmacists as the industry is overworked by pandemics and there is a shortage of new pharmacists. It states that things are getting harder. They need to do.
"There will be no more people, but more jobs. It's nice to shovel things in our garden, but we need people to do the job," Auclair says. I did.
"Some people have retired early or are now ... on vacation ..." Chiew told Global News.
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Pharmacy Association Saskatchewan CEO Michael Fougere states that Saskatoon does not see a significant reduction in pharmacists, but Regina does.
Fougere states that accurate statistics and figures regarding the degree of deficiency are unknown.
"They may be working longer, they may close sooner. I don't think it will affect the quality or type of service received. The average person or pharmacist. I haven't heard anything from myself, " Fougere said.
According to Fougere, business hours are affected throughout the state due to the lack of staff.
"There are few staff and less time at the pharmacy."
According to Fougere, there are more than 1,200 pharmacies in the state, and there are pharmacists in other environments as well.
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Sus There is a pharmacy university in Cartoon at US ask, which produces graduates every year. Yvonne Shevchuk, Dean of the Pharmacy and Nutrition Department at USask, states that there is space to accommodate up to 90 students each year.
"We track the number of students graduating each year. It's in our late 80s. There wasn't much change in the shortage of students," Shebchuk said. I am saying.
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New pharmacists must pass a license exam before getting a job, and foreign workers need experience at a Canadian pharmacy. This can take a year or two.
"There is still a gap here waiting for new graduates, but that doesn't solve the whole problem. That is, people retire because they don't want to work too much and go to part-time jobs. We switched, "Chiew told Global Newsover Zoom.
Shevchuk says that a shortage of pharmacists has occurred in the past, so this is not new.
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