Pharmacist-led walk-in clinic opens in Edmonton area – Edmonton | 24CA News

People within the Edmonton space now have another choice on the subject of discovering well being care. A pharmacist led walk-in clinic opened it’s doorways Friday to sufferers in Fort Saskatchewan.

“I think its wonderful, I think its going to help so many people,” stated Sylvia Viczko, who was visiting the shop.

Loblaws opened its first pharmacist-based clinic inside a Superstore in Lethbridge again  in June.

This one opened inside a Shoppers Drug Mart in Fort Saskatchewan’s West Park Plaza.

The clinic works equally to every other walk-in clinic, besides as an alternative of seeing a physician you converse with a pharmacist who assess your signs.

“That ranges from treating things like minor ailments — like if you have a bladder infection, you don’t want to be sitting in the emergency for a number of hours, save that spot for somebody who has a more complex issue — to things like managing your diseases like hypertension, high blood pressure, diabetes and stuff like that,” Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacist and proprietor, Rajan Bharadia stated.

A pharmacist can solely deal with minor sicknesses or accidents and anybody needing extra critical medical care nonetheless must go to a hospital. Pharmacists are additionally in a position to prescribe and renew sure drugs with out the necessity of getting to see a physician.

“If you don’t have a regular doctor in Fort Saskatchewan you, cannot get into the walk-in clinics the same day or you have to go to Sherwood Park,” Viczko stated.

It’s a much-needed various, Viczko stated, for the town and surrounding communities.

“I have gone to emergency for something that I don’t feel is emergency care, but that’s the only option I have,” Viczko stated.

The metropolis’s mayor stated she wish to see extra open up.

‘We’re listening to from residents everywhere in the province that they’ll’t get in to see a physician, the walk-in clinics are absolutely booked, go to emergency and so they wait 10 hours. That’s not acceptable,” Mayor of Fort Saskatchewan Gale Katchur stated.

“Even if it’s not something we can deal with under our scope of practice, what we can do is direct you where to go. Also, maybe communicate with your other health-care providers and that circle of care to help you get care quicker,” Bharadia stated.

An possibility Bharadia stated he’s joyful to assist present, given the challenges going through our healthcare system.

‘I think that is fabulous, it’s lengthy overdue,” Viczko stated.

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