Gansu Chongxin: Shared medicine box to ease the difficulty of purchasing medicine

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“The shared medicine box has solved my urgent need!” Zhang Xiaolan, a resident of Jinyu Garden District, had severe throat pain and coughing symptoms and wanted to buy Pudilan anti-inflammatory oral solution, but ran to several pharmacies without getting it. She rushed to the community to get a few bottles free of charge when she learned that there were medicines in the community’s shared medicine box.

Before and after the Spring Festival, in order to effectively solve the residents’ short-term difficulties in purchasing medicine, the urban community of Chongxin County, Pingliang City, Gansu Province, organized a civilizational practice activity of “neighborhood mutual assistance and medicine sharing”, set up a shared medicine box in the community’s New Age civilizational practice station, and built a platform for mutual medicine sharing.

The picture shows the shared medicine box set up in the city community of Chongxin County

“I came here today to donate 999 cold and flu granules.” Learning that the community has set up a shared medicine box, Wu Xinmin, a resident living in Century Garden District, came to the community early and donated the unused medicine at home. “I bought several boxes at that time, and the extra ones were donated to the community, hoping to help people in need.”

A few days ago, the reporter saw in the new era of civilization practice station in the fish fort community, the shared medicine box was neatly placed with a variety of drugs such as Lianhua Qingbi capsule, Pu Di Lan anti-inflammatory oral liquid, acute syrup, pediatric black beetle fever clearing granules, as well as alcohol, hand sanitizer, medical masks and other epidemic prevention supplies.

The picture shows residents receiving free medicines from the shared medicine box

Chongxin County Urban Community Party Work Committee Deputy Secretary Zhang Hu Ping introduced: “We through the community owners group, volunteer groups and other channels, the owners group into a mutual aid group, advocating residents to donate excess drugs at home, to achieve someone needs ‘medicine’, we help.”

It is understood that up to now, the eight shared medicine boxes set up by the urban communities in Chongxin County have raised more than 310 copies of medicines, such as Lianhua Qingfei capsules, cough syrup and ibuprofen, which effectively alleviate the difficulties of the elderly, elderly people living alone and difficult families in the area with medicines. At the same time, the community integrated key people into the grid management, established “one-to-one” accounts and follow-up records for key people with basic diseases, and provided health services in all aspects.