Pandemic causing pharmacists to leave the industry

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The COVID-19 pandemic created an urgency astir pharmacists’ roles. From filling prescriptions to vaccinating Hoosiers against the virus, the load has forced galore pharmacists to permission the industry.

Hamid Abbaspour, the proprietor of Dr. Aziz Pharmacy, said this was an contented earlier the pandemic.

However, Abbaspour said healthcare workers stepped up and worked overtime and that caused stress.

Another origin for pharmacists leaving is the added ample amounts of patients who question COVID investigating and vaccinations.

Abbaspour said pharmacists are doing much than their occupation rubric and dealing with “the mediate man” astatine larger corporations astir security oregon the deficiency of security of patients. 

“One of my pharmacists, helium got a existent property license,” said Abbaspour. “It breaks my bosom due to the fact that this idiosyncratic was 1 of the champion pharmacists and leaving the marketplace conscionable due to the fact that of that.”

He said determination are plentifulness of factors astatine play, including assemblage pharmacists not getting capable enactment from the corporations they enactment with.

For example, Abbaspour said Medicare paid his pharmacy to administer the COVID vaccine. To bash this, helium had to taxable claims done larger corporations who successful instrumentality return 20% from them. That bites into their income.

Abbaspour said the solution is that they request to enactment connected grooming and hiring much qualified radical successful larger corporations.