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The Keelung City Health Bureau and the Pharmacists Association are cooperating to promote the community-friendly pharmacy project, which aims to improve pharmacy services, pay special attention to the health needs of the elderly, and provide extended services such as blood pressure measurement, medication consultation, and home delivery of medications.
2026/09/23 14:23
Keelung City Health Director Zhang Xianzheng (left) awards the license to Xie Zhifeng, chairman of the Pharmacists Association. (Photo by reporter Lu Xianxiu)
[Reporter Lu Xianxiu/Reported by Keelung] In addition to collecting medicines and consulting on medication, pharmacies can also help with blood pressure measurement, medication delivery and many other services. The Keelung City Health Bureau, pharmacies, and professional pharmacists have promoted "community-friendly pharmacies". Currently, 101 pharmacies have joined. They were unveiled today to take care of people's health more closely.
Director of Health Zhang Xianzheng attended the certification ceremony and unveiled the plaque in front of the pharmacy together with the Keelung Pharmacists Association, the Western Medicine Business Association, the Pharmacy Association and the profession.
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Zhang Xianzheng pointed out that in the first wave of 101 pharmacies in the city, 126 pharmacies have joined the community-friendly pharmacies. They can provide senior-friendly, blood pressure measurement, dementia-friendly, integrated functional evaluation for the elderly (ICOPE), smoking cessation services, assistive device services, medication consultation, institutional medication services, medication integration, and even deliver medicines to homes or residential institutions according to the pharmacy's professional characteristics and capabilities, especially for the elderly to take more comprehensive and safe medication.
Zhang Xianzheng said that community-friendly pharmacies have a total of 11 service items, but each one adds an average of 1 to 8 services depending on its service capacity. A unified identification sign is hung at the door so that the public can clearly know what services are available, and it also makes the pharmacist profession easier to see.
Xie Zhifeng, chairman of the Pharmacists Association, said that community pharmacies are good neighbors to residents. In today's society with a declining birthrate and an aging population, pharmacies are operating in a way that serves the elderly, including measuring their body temperature, blood pressure or blood sugar, which are all within the scope of pharmacies. They will also care about their families. They rely on services rather than vicious competition.
Keelung City established community-friendly pharmacies, with 101 pharmacies joining. (Photo by reporter Lu Xianxiu)
Director of Health Zhang Xianzheng (fifth from left) went to the pharmacy to hang up the community-friendly pharmacy logo. (Photo by reporter Lu Xianxiu)

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