Panic buying in Poland has begun

Poland

The pharmacies are missing masks. Kopacz: there is no reason to panic
02/Nov/09

In Poland, there has been no sharp increase in the incidence of influenza, but in many pharmacies due to high customer interest has already run out of hygienic masks on their faces. According to the pharmacists are more likely than are typically purchased on measures to strengthen immunity.

- Did the frenzy of facials - Pharmacist said the pharmacy "Under the Sun" in Wroclaw. - We do not have them already on sale and we can not at this time of their order, because they are not in warehouses - she added. According to the pharmacy farmaceutki "Beata" in Warsaw, November 1, in a single day has sold 500 masks. Previously, no one will buy. "Today there is no masks, they are not in any warehouse in which the procuring - Pharmacist said Joan Emhe with online pharmacy" Home Health ". In Poznan pharmacy "Galenica" masks are yet, but they were little.

- Mask is a half-measure. Us stop believing the myths that mask is a panacea. First you need to instill - stressed on Monday's press conference head of the National Center for Influenza, prof. Lidia Brydak.

Pharmacists, when asked about the effectiveness of masks, made no secret doubts. "In some way mask can protect you, but on the other hand the virus easily transferred to hands, touching of face, for example, after getting off the bus" - one of them said. An employee of one of the pharmacies in Piaseczno stressed that one must remember that seasonal flu causes more deaths than influenza A/H1N1. "Relax, let us do not panic" - he stressed.

According to pharmacy employees "Beata" customers also ask about drug Tamiflu. - This medicine available only on prescription. At this time also it is not "- said one of farmaceutek. She added that only your doctor can decide whether this drug should be taken by the patient and in what dose. Emphasized that the drug is expensive (10 capsules costs approximately 120 zł), and is not refunded.

Pharmacists say that customers are more likely than usual to procure the means to strengthen the resistance, also ask about seasonal influenza vaccine (available only on prescription).

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