Chemist Warehouse Lismore owner Kate Daniel has stock flown in
A Lismore chemist that has been overrun in store while also dispensing medication for flood evacuation centres has received a desperately needed delivery.
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A chopper filled with life saving drugs has brought desperately-needed relief at a Lismore chemist that has been overrun in the days since flood water destroyed much of the town.
Chemist Warehouse Lismore owner Kate Daniel said she had seen traumatised people who had been through horrendous situations but had somehow managed to keep their spirits up.
“As a community everyone seems to be rallying behind each other and really supporting each other,” Mrs Daniel said.
“It’s certainly been a crazy time.”
She said the store had been swamped with more than twice as many customers as normal who formed a lengthy queue for scripts.
“The volume of scripts is unprecedented and we have run out of a lot of lifesaving medications,” she said.
Her staff have also been dispensing medicine for evacuation centres with the help of pharmacists from Lismore Base and St Vincent’s hospitals.
“Most people are turning up with no prescriptions, no medications, no Medicare card, so it’s a matter of trying to co-ordinate how we supply these people with their regular medications,” Mrs Daniel said.
A helicopter was chartered from Brisbane to drop off vital drugs including insulin and heart medicine on Thursday.
“This will get us through for a couple of days until the roads are open and we can actually receive our normal orders,” she said.
Mrs Daniel said staff members who had been able to get to work had been working long hours to help as many people as possible.
She said others in her team had lost their homes and been cut off by flood water.
“Everybody has stepped up like you wouldn’t believe,” she said.
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