ASEFARMA pharmacists report on the swine flu.

Asefarma, together with pharmacies in Madrid, has produced a brochure to advise anyone who has doubts Cities @.

With this initiative seek to collaborate for the hospital emergency room or not to collapse before the pandemic alert



Information is the best recipe to prevent. Therefore, in the 300 pharmacies in Madrid ASEFARMA attached, the main Pharmacy Consulting Spain, has just been put in place an action that will relieve more than one. Our pharmacists will provide information to any citizen who has questions about what this virus and what to do, says Carlos Garcia-Mauriño, managing partner of Asefarma. In this way we transmit to society calm and Spanish health authorities have demonstrated their expertise and have all the control mechanisms to quickly identify and monitor cases of people affected, he adds.

And the possibility is that, as recently announced by WHO (World Health Organization) of a global pandemic, the work of pharmacies reveals fundamental. First because of its proximity to the citizen virtually the entire population is a pharmacy within 300 meters from his home, second as a clearinghouse for antiviral drugs etc, and third as health professionals in informing and advising. The current law governing pharmacies in Spain and its conception as part of our National Health System angels are revealed in these times of uncertainty, added Garcia-Maurin.

This being the pharmacists will place special emphasis on explaining that the drugs needed to kill the virus are the same as those used in typical flu. These antivirals have side effects that are only released with a prescription.


As for the doubts that the pharmacists will clear to citizens that they will want to attend, including:

- What is the swine flu and how is it spread?

- Are the swine influenza virus can infect humans?

- What are the symptoms?

- Does the swine influenza virus H1N1 is equal to the H1N1 influenza virus in humans?

- How is diagnosed swine flu infections in humans?

- Is the current vaccine protects against seasonal influenza flu type H1N1 porcine origin?

- Are there medicines to treat people infected with swine influenza viruses?

- What is done to detect other cases of infections in people with the virus H1N1 swine influenza once it has detected a case?

On the other hand since it Asefarma advised in pharmacies where masks to protect themselves from acquiring 100% of viruses - and they are the same ones that are already spreading in hospitals, since they, not others be purchased in other shops, meet European standards for which they are made and are proof of sneezing, socio-end Asefarma director.