Labour will deliver your drugs to your door (mhux kemm taqbad erba drivers?)
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February 18, 2013 at 1:01am
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Reply to Justin Beefer Click here to cancel reply
How is it possible to deliver pills to people for free?
1) By law, only pharmacists can handle and deliver medicine.
2) Can you imagine the confusion if the patient wants to ask why the medicine he received is different in shape or colour?
3) People who experience the care of old people will tell you that sometimes they fall asleep waiting for you at a fixed time (say after you finish work) let alone waiting for the delivery of ‘il-pirmli bil-vann’ from eight in the morning till five.
This is not the baker’s van (tal-hobz) who puts the daily small loaf in the bag dangling on the door knob. This is a monthly delivery which can be done at any day and at any time.
4) Can you imagine a poor old man who has poor eyesight signing the ‘acceptance’ sheet for the right quantities of a variety of pills?
5) Old people need to go out, not encouragement from Big Brother to stay in.
Yet another clear example of Labour Party = Not fit for purpose.
Alla jilleberana milli Joseph Muscat jkun fil- gvern.
“How is it possible to deliver pills to people for free?”
Careful.
1. The Labour billboard does not say that delivery is free.
2. JosephMuscatDotCom has circulated letters in households stating “Bhala l-ewwel pass, se jinbeda progett biex dawk l-anzjani ta’ aktar minn 70 sena, dawk kollha li ghandhom nuqqas serju ta’ mobbilta’ u persuni b’dizabilita’ jibdew jitwasslulhom gewwa darhom, il-medicini li huma jkunu intitolati ghalihom b’xejn.”
Read that carefully. It is not clear if “b’xejn” refers to the delivery service or the free medicine entitlement. Another ambiguous proposal from Tana Lkoll.
This is certainly not a well thought proposal, it looks more like a proposal shot in the spur of the moment.
The declaration that followed speaks volumes about the forma mentis of some labour exponents “mhux erba drivers !!”. Handling of medicines has become very regulated since the times they have been in government and quite rightly to give the best quality of medicine to the patient.
As Gahan aptly put it the personnel needs to be able and competent enough to answer the queries that the recipients of the medicines might pose. That is why government is paying private pharmacies a fee per patient in the POYC scheme for their services which includes storing and dispensing of medicine.
In principle it is a good idea for patients who are completely housebound but the logistics of it are more complicated.
However extensive research shows that the more the elderly stay involved in the community the better for their general well being. So I fear that such a service will convey the opposite message that one stays more confined in his home.
Very dangerous indeed. Also, it is a fact that those who have the service of a home help can benefit from this helper to go and collect the prescribed pills for them.