Pharmacies will be closed throughout Greece on Wednesday, December 14, in a 24-hour nationwide warning strike called by the Panhellenic Pharmaceutical Association, which has also warned of an escalation of mobilisations with nationwide suspension of credit to all social security funds as of January 1, 2012 or earlier.
The pharmacists are protesting the “downgrading of pharmaceutical care and economic asphyxiation” the pharmacies are suffering.
Federation president Theodoros Ambatzoglou, in a statement, left open the prospect of escalation and intensification of the sector’s mobilisations.
The Federation said the pharmacies are unable to function due to the discontinuation of credit by suppliers and the social security funds’ failure to pay the money owed to the pharmacies.
(source: ana-mpa)
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