00:00What do you think about the need for a transformation in the national health service?
00:05The national health service needs a transformation because, of course,
00:09the needs are increasing and the resources are what they are,
00:12and it is difficult to find them again, or perhaps the will to do so is lacking.
00:16It is true that self-medication becomes an indispensable tool
00:20because it allows the citizen to be able to, in a certain way,
00:23cure minor pathologies without having to resort to the structured health services.
00:30But to be able to do so, you need to be informed
00:33and you need to have a reference point to compare yourself with when doing so.
00:37That is why the pharmacies, which are present in the entire national territory,
00:41even in the most peripheral areas, in the mountainous areas, in the outskirts of the cities,
00:45are the reference point you need to focus on.
00:49The pharmacist, with his knowledge, his familiarity with people,
00:53is the person who, more than anyone else, can induce, educate, to use self-medication.
00:59What does politics have to do?
01:01It has to be aware of this added value of putting in the system,
01:04which clearly does not replace the service in its entirety,
01:08in the maximum specializations, in hospitals, in polyamory, in specialization,
01:12but simply accompanies it and brings it closer.
01:15You have to invest in the pharmacies,
01:18seeing them more and more as territorial health care,
01:21you have to invest in the communication and training of citizens
01:24and also intervene in the market
01:27to make sure that all drugs, without the need for medical prescription,
01:31can be made available and can be known and used by all citizens.
01:39Because the danger is that, often and willingly,
01:42these tools of great innovation are only accessible to a part of the population,
01:46leaving everything else excluded.
01:49And perhaps this, which is the most fragile, the most necessary,
01:52the less culturally prepared, needs an accompaniment.
01:55Hence, next to the figures I said before about the pharmacists,
01:59the importance of the valorization of the third sector and local administrations.
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