Image source: https://cmvalparaiso.cl/farmacia-y-optica-popular/
| Country | Chile | |
| City | Valparaiso | |
| Name | Farmacia Popular de Valparaiso | |
| Date | 2017 | |
| Description of the project | A project started in 2017 for the creation of a “Red de Servicios Populares de Salud”, a network of community pharmacies delivering services sold in instalments by the City’s health department at lowered prices (up to 70% lower than the market price). This service is is granted to members (together with their families) of citizens’ associations and labor unions which, together with the City, cooperate to install the service. It is furthermore granted to every people living, working or studying in the city.
The service includes not only the creation of pharmacies, but also optics, a municipal health center, an orthopedics and, in the future, the creation of a “popular laboratory”. With the support of the Central Abastecimiento Nacional (CENABAST), the national entity for the distribution of medicine as a partner, the pharmacy wants to guarantee the access to medicine to all neighbors of Valparaiso. Moreover, the Municipal Pharmacy is planning to create a User Association to co-manage the service. This experiment, whose implementation has been carried out in contrast with mainstream liberal policy dogma of equality of opportunities without recognizing the need to regulate the free market in highly contentious fields such as healthcare, could be accosted to Imbroscio’s idea of “solidarity economy”4, a concept that reflects the will of fighting poverty by investing on communities’ overhaul stability and prosperity rather than just meritocracy. |
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| Urban Co-Governance | Strong | |
| Enabling State | Moderate | |
| Pooling | Strong | |
| Experimentalism | Moderate | |
| Tech Justice | Weak | |
| Project Website | https://cmvalparaiso.cl/2018/11/16/farmacia-y-optica-popular-ahorran-mas-de-mil-millones-de-pesos-al-bolsillo-de-los-portenos/ | |
| References, sources, contact person(s) | Source : Website, press articles
Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/FarmaciaPopularValpo/ Scientific references : Aline S. Dosea, Giselle C. Brito, Lincoln M. C. Santos, Tatiane C. Marques1, Blície Balisa-Rocha, Deborah Pimentel, Denise Bueno, and Divaldo P. Lyra Jr., Establishment, Implementation, and Consolidation of Clinical Pharmacy Services in Community pharmacies: Perceptions of a Group of Pharmacists, In: Qualitative Health Research 2017, Vol. 27(3) 363 –373. Contact : redsaludpopular@cmvalparaiso.cl |
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