Thursday was a bad day for pharmacy. Not only were we out of one of our antihypertensive drugs (this is quite normal. I've given up pointing out how unhelpful it is for us to be telling patients how important it is that they take their meds only to then not be able to dispense them as we are out of stock), but we also had no warfarin (we have a lot of heart valve replacement patients due to rheumatic heart disease), no second line HIV drugs (for those patients who have failed to improve on the standard ones. 'Defaulting' treatment is a sure fire way of making sure that the second line ones don't work. And we don't have third line ones) and no TB treatment (a good way to increase our already prolific drug resistant TB). A fairly bare cupboard.
And then we heard that our chief pharmacist is leaving at the end of the month. With no replacement in sight.
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