China Overseas Chinese Network, October 9th, according to the US "World Journal" report, the new crown pneumonia epidemic hit New York.
In the most severe period of the illness, community pharmacies became the main place for people to buy protective products, antipyretics, cough medicines, vitamins, and daily necessities; the new home pharmacy opened in Queens, where the Chinese are concentrated, is very rare during the epidemic. Delivery of medicines to stores in the five major districts of New York City, in addition to daily dispensing and delivery to 200 families, it also delivers toilet paper, rice and other necessities to vulnerable elderly families to ensure that the elderly can avoid the epidemic at home and ensure safety and health .
Many pharmacies closed during the severe epidemic, but he desperately ventured out
Chen Yi, the person in charge of Xinjiajia Pharmacy, has been operating a pharmacy in the community for nearly ten years. Before the epidemic, he was one of the few Chinese pharmacies that provided drug delivery. He was in a severe epidemic, people turned to video consultations, and many pharmacies chose to close or unwilling to deliver. When medicines and a large number of stores are short of daily necessities, we hire drivers to expand the delivery of medicines and daily necessities services, hoping to help seniors and families in Flushing, Queens, Chinatown, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, etc., without risking Go out at risk of infection.
"Nearly 90% of our customers are elderly people. They have weak resistance and inconvenient mobility. Many people have chronic diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease who have to take insulin or take several drugs every day. Some people are isolated at home. Patients with new coronary pneumonia." Chen Yi said that even though the people he had contact with were dangerous and he had hesitated and struggled, he still felt that he had a responsibility to insist on delivering medicines to the people. "This can reduce their going out to buy medicines and spread the virus to others. , Or the chance of being infected by others, can you truly feel at ease psychologically."
The delivery driver resigned after two days, and he and his partner personally replaced
However, the high risk of delivery has also caused frequent shortages of manpower in the store. Delivery drivers often resign after two days of work. Chen Yi and partner Chen Yao have to personally replace them; "We are open every day and work every day. In ten hours, an average of medicines and supplies were delivered to 200 families.” Chen Yao said that despite the shortage of manpower, he still thanked those who bravely went out to serve the community.
In order to protect employees who have returned to work, as long as the store receives a drug order for suspected treatment of new coronary pneumonia, Chen Yi will personally take the delivery service; he said that in order to protect the privacy of the patient, the doctor will not inform the pharmacy staff when prescribing the drug whether the patient is a new crown Patients with pneumonia, “but we can slightly distinguish the patient’s condition based on the dosage requirements of painkillers, antipyretics, antibiotics, cough suppressants, vitamin C, etc.; once a suspected case is received, we will pay more attention to protection and disinfection when delivering medicines, and pass Delivery is done in a contactless way".
I don’t care if I make money, I just want to give back to the community
Although the epidemic in New York has eased, many community pharmacies have gradually reopened. Many elderly people still rarely go out because they are used to distributing medicines and delivering daily necessities.
Chen Yi said that if the group goes out to get medicine, it means that they need to take the risk of taking public transportation or to crowded areas such as supermarkets, and there is a certain risk of infection; "We are neighbors of each other for nearly ten years, and we insist on opening stores when the epidemic is severe. It also provides the guests with the necessities of life at the original price. In fact, it doesn’t care whether they make money or not. I only hope that I can do my best to give back to the community.”
(Yan Jieen)