Stock up on medical supplies as peak of hurricane season nears
Chief of Drugs and Pharmaceutical Services, Gracia Wheatley-Smith is urging residents with chronic health conditions to have an additional supply of medication on hand as the peak of the hurricane season draws closer.
Individuals with conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and asthma should ensure they have at least a month’s supply of medication to prepare for any storm’s impact, according to the Pharmaceutical Services boss.
“Sometimes, based on the forecast of the storms, there may not be sufficient time to go to the pharmacy and have medication prescriptions filled,” Wheatley-Smith explained. “Weather conditions may deteriorate quickly causing early closure of pharmacies or impassable roads. That is why it is imperative for persons with chronic conditions to be adequately prepared as we enter the peak of the hurricane season,” she said.
Additionally, parents were advised to have pain and fever medications should the need arise. Safety precautions are also recommended in storing these medications.
“In preparing, we also have to make sure that we think about the children and their medical and pharmaceutical needs and ensure they are adequately prepared as well,” she said.
This message comes after TS Ernesto affected the territory on August 13 with heavy rainfall and strong winds, causing flash flooding in some areas.
Although some residents reported minimal indoor flooding, the majority of the damage affected outdoor infrastructure.
Government offices and businesses including pharmacies and health centres were closed as a safety measure, thus highlighting Smith’s caution to the public.
Though the storm has passed, the public has been urged by officials to exercise caution, patience, and, most importantly, make preparations as the territory heads into the busiest period of the hurricane season.
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We already have most of the trees around here
stock up on what stuff to keep you sick please yall better wake up
on the medication that’s is LOADED WITH TON LOADS OF SIDE EFFECTS THAT THE NICEDOCTORS DON’T TELL YOU ABOUT OR MAKE YOU AWARE OF WHST YOU THEY ARE PRESCRIBING FOR YOU TO PUT IN YOUR BODY ( MANMKE IF YOU ARE BEEN PRESCRIBED BY YOUR DOCTOR ,MAKE SURE YOU LOOK INTO THEIR EYS AND ASK THEM IF IT HAS IN ANY SIDE EFFECTS / remember it’s your body it will be going into UNLESS YOU WANT TO JOIN THOSE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO IS SUFFERING FROM SIDE EFFECTS OF PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS FROM THEIR SMILING DOCTORS
Made someone I know suffer kidney failure
What they don’t tell you is that to stock up the second month’s prescription has a ridiculous markup. The pharmacies take advantage. A normal
Prescription at 5.00 is now approx 22.00.
Talk to NHI. In easter I was travelling and needed extra medication to cover my wife while we were travelling and I had to pay out of pocket because NHI said I got prescription two weeks ago.
some of us , won’t believe it happens to them or their family / predators are everywhere , and they are even trying to out hustle
each other ,
so it boils down to
a couple
of things (MONEY ) (
GREED) & ( POWER ) and even if they gets the
lions share ,
it won’t
satisfy them / with all their knowledge they fail to understand that WE CANNOT TAKE ANYTHING WITH US
. ALL AH DEM WANTS
ALL FOR THEMSELVES
•¿• some of Them
going to their grave
, BUT THEY STILL
GRABBING FOR MORE •