MYRIAM VAN TERGOUW,
Sir, - What a bitter and sad letter from Margaret Hickey (February 27th).
My local pharmacist, rather than being a "monopolist", is a health care professional who supplies, on an 18-hour-a-day basis, a whole range of services such as health advice, first-aid, blood-pressure testing - and generally without charge or delay! To describe him simply as a "retailer" is not correct.
I certainly will be supporting the pharmacists' poster campaign. Ms Hickey should get to know her local pharmacist. It could save her a lot of money! - Yours, etc.,
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MYRIAM VAN TERGOUW,
Grange,
Douglas,
Cork.