[Tagging] semi pharmacies

[Sebastian Gürtler]

I just went back to the beginning of the discussion.

In Germany it makes no sense to talk about "semi pharmacies" for there
are special laws about pharmacies where in detail the licensing and the
duties of pharmacies are regulated. (ApoG = Apotheken Gesetz and ApBetrO
Apotheken Betriebs Ordnung - pharmacy operating regulation).

The pharmacies are obliged to fulfill the prescriptions which include
preparations. (Sometimes pharmacists don't like that, especially in
unusual preparations, and there may be some resistance against preparations)

The pharmacies are obliged to organize the availability of the drugs
24/24 7/7, usually by a system of changing duties.

Therefore it won't be useful to tag anything in Germany with
amenity=pharmacy and preparing=no for this would question the tagging
amenity=pharmacy at all.

According to "local" national German law it makes a great difference
because prescription drugs and some other freely available drugs can
only be obtained at regular pharmacies. (this includes substances like
aspirin, paracetamol, cetirizin and so on, that can be obtained in other
countries in the supermarket). So it is really important to make a clear
distinction. If you need one of these drugs, you have to go to a
pharmacy and not to some other place where they sell for example herbal
drugs which are not controlled. (I saw exceptions - but they are
illegal... Russian supermarket with freely offered analgetics on a desk,
I think the people even weren't aware what they are doing by importing
and reselling such drugs. It won't be a good idea to tag that as
semipharmacy...)

This is a good example that the definition and meaning of a tag can vary
between nations and regions. There may be places where the distinction
of "semi pharmacies" would make sense. There may be places where the
tagging of night service at pharmacies would make sense. In Germany it
doesn't. Default is "night opening=sometimes - see local information".

Cheers Sebastian

Am 09.05.22 um 18:54 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer:
>
> what about pharmacies that don’t prepare medicines, only sell
> prepackaged products, I guess it’s still ok to tag amenity=pharmacy?
>
>
> maybe an additional tag like preparing=no would be suitable to
> distinguish them (at least in areas where you would expect a pharmacy
> to have a pharmacist who can prepare individual medicines)?
>
>
> by local law these are not considered “pharmacies” but for most
> customers it would not make a difference
>
>
>
> Cheers Martin
>
>
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