Pharmacies in Naples are facing a
rush to get oxygen by "desperate" people amid the COVID
pandemic, the head of the southern city's federation of
pharmacies said Friday.
"We have incessant requests for oxygen in the pharmacies," said
Federfarma Napoli President , Riccardo Maria Iorio.
"They are people who are understandably desperate and afraid and
to whom, sadly, we almost always have to respond in the
negative.
"It was no use appealing to people to bring back the tanks to
the pharmacies.
"By now, demand has far outstripped supply".
Iorio said many pharmacists had personally gone to recover tanks
at people's houses, but oxygen distribution companies were
having trouble getting the containers back.
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