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May 12, 2020 "The time has come to tell the whole truth about the history of the masks". So Vittorio Contarina, president of Federfarma Roma and Federfarma Lazio and vice president of Federfarma national, intervenes to "clarify, once and for all, also following the heavy accusations by Commissioner Domenico Arcuri, who has blamed pharmacies and distributors for the lack of "masks.  

In pharmacies, in fact, masks are not found again. Especially after the price has been set at 50 cents plus VAT. There will be problems in the pharmacy distribution network, said the extraordinary commissioner for coronavirus Domenico Arcuri at the press conference, adding that since May 1, 19 million masks have been sold at 50 cents plus VAT and that 55 have arrived in the Regions' warehouses millions of masks. 

Federfarma's reply: too many checks and rules
"The problem is not yet solved - he explains - because two weeks after the agreement the famous Civil Protection masks, if they arrive, arrive with the dropper. The reason is simple. Too many checks, too many rules margins too low for those who produce them and for those who import them, who obviously prefer, to earn more, to 'divert' them to other countries such as Spain, where the final price of the masks has been set at around 1 euro. in these countries they have masks, we don't ", highlights Contarina, who remarks:" And in all this someone also has the courage to blame the Italian pharmacists even accusing them of hiding them for economic reasons ".

Purchases at higher prices
"From the first moment of the crisis - reconstructs the president of Federfarma Roma and Federfarma Lazio - the sharp increase in demand for masks, in addition to causing a dramatic shortage on the whole national territory, has led to a dizzying increase in prices at pharmacies, who found themselves having to purchase the masks from suppliers at a cost 10 times higher than the usual one - he continues - This fact inevitably led to an increase in the price of the masks also to the end user who, unaware of the speculation upstream of the supply chain, he took it out with the pharmacists at the counter, provided he was lucky enough to find a pharmacy that had one ".  

Checks of Nas and GdF
"Subsequently, the necessary checks came from the Nas and the Guardia di Finanza, all over Italy, even several times at the pharmacy, in order to check the prices and the methods of dispensing the masks". And then came the lawsuit of the certificates: true, false, plausible, not authentic, uncredited. But whoever enters these masks in Italy should not have the task of controlling this aspect? In the meantime, the pharmacists were sick and died, because they are forced to work without protection in dramatic situations. Yes, because we didn't have masks for us either, "he recalls. In recent weeks, an agreement has been signed with Commissioner Arcuri, but the dispute over the masks does not seem to have ended.