May DocMorris in the North of Baden operate the country’s first pharmacy vending machines? No, ruled the court of appeal and a regional court confirmed this judgment. Pharmacists had complained.
The nation’s first DocMorris pharmacy vending machine is out of operation. The higher regional court (OLG) of Karlsruhe confirmed by the district court of Mosbach imposed a ban on.
consultation via Video
DocMorris, a Europe-wide mail-order pharmacy from the Netherlands, had, two years ago, in the baden-württemberg municipality of Hüffenhardt (Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis) took the first machines of this type in operation in Germany. An apparatus is in the converted premises of a former pharmacy. In addition to a payment terminal and a screen behind the glass is just a piece of conveyor belt is to be seen. From there, the desired drug falls into the output tray. Via Video, customers can contact a pharmacist in the Netherlands.
the pharmacy looks machine: The consultation is done via Video.
The project was stopped in April 2017 after a few weeks of court. Thus, actions of the land pharmacists Association of Baden-Württemberg and of pharmacists from the environment successfully. You criticize for a while, is that retailers want to expand into new fields. From their point of view, DocMorris is to give “a competitive advantage at the expense of the safety of medicines”. They warn of damage to health due to the lack of Monitoring.
Negligently or necessary?
Valentin hall Frank of the Association of medical law in the German lawyers ‘ Association refers to a year, approximately 500,000 emergency room in the hospital because of adverse drug reactions due to avoidable medication errors. Therefore, he argues, to leave the tax only highly qualified natural persons who have an operating licence.
