Published on : 23/04/2022 – 09:24
After the strike of midwives and several unions of health workers on Thursday, it was the pharmacists who mobilized yesterday Friday. A movement very followed in the main cities, “from 95 to 100%” in Dakar, Louga, Fatick or even Mbour, according to their union. They denounce the allocation of a pharmacy in Dakar to a pharmacist to the detriment of its historical occupant. “Coupy” according to them.
with our correspondent in Dakar, Charlotte Idrac
Curtain lowered from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in front of a large number of pharmacies.
At the origin of the mobilization: the so-called “Grande Pharmacie Dakaroise” affair, a pharmacy which was located on Place de l’Indépendance, in the heart of the capital, and managed for forty years by Doctor Aïcha Goundiam Mbodj. But in a January 2021 decree, the Ministry of Health authorized another pharmacist to operate the site.
“Unfair” according to the union of private pharmacists of Senegal. ” All the pharmacists understood that we might not let this pass, at the risk of all being suspendedexplains the president of the union, Doctor Assane Diop. There is a problem of cronyism, non-respect of the texts and bias!
Seized, the Supreme Court had agreed with Aïcha Goundiam Mbodj last November. But nothing helps. This case, ” it’s not just two women fighting over a room “says a relative of the complainant, but” an example of too many small arrangements between friends ».
The pharmacist to whom the site was assigned, Doctor Aminata Gassama, is a relative of the Head of State, and the wife ofAbdoulaye Balde, the former mayor of Ziguinchor who has just recalled his roots in the presidential majority. She proclaims her good faith and defends herself from any favoritism.