Speak Out 4/15/14

Question about pharmacies

I just can't understand all the pharmacies they're building here in Poplar Bluff why can't they build a pharmacy closer to the new hospital? Why can't we have a 24-hour pharmacy? Your kid gets sick. You don't get out of the emergency room until 8 o'clock at night--maybe not until 2 a.m. and you've got prescriptions. Now what are you supposed to do? Let the kid be sick until the pharmacy opens at 8 a.m.? Why can't we have something for people --you've got to understand everybody that uses the new hospital does not actually live in Poplar Bluff. So when you live out in Timbuktu you come in here, use their hospital. You have 24 hour gas stations. You have 24 hour restaurants. Walmart. Why can't one place be open 24 hours for a pharmacy to get a prescription for a sick person.