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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2016
Pharmacy offices Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 20 2,202
Alt Empordà 73 1,869
Alt Penedès 36 2,947
Alt Urgell 10 2,033
Alta Ribagorça 3 1,281
Anoia 40 2,947
Aran 5 1,963
Bages 72 2,409
Baix Camp 72 2,621
Baix Ebre 35 2,228
Baix Empordà 65 2,008
Baix Llobregat 255 3,157
Baix Penedès 30 3,325
Barcelonès 1,189 1,864
Berguedà 21 1,855
Cerdanya 10 1,773
Conca de Barberà 9 2,238
Garraf 41 3,533
Garrigues 12 1,590
Garrotxa 26 2,116
Gironès 77 2,373
Maresme 144 3,034
Moianès 9 1,461
Montsià 27 2,517
Noguera 22 1,745
Osona 59 2,612
Pallars Jussà 7 1,876
Pallars Sobirà 4 1,723
Pla d'Urgell 17 2,164
Pla de l'Estany 13 2,421
Priorat 8 1,161
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1,466
Ripollès 13 1,919
Segarra 10 2,236
Segrià 78 2,623
Selva 65 2,549
Solsonès 6 2,238
Tarragonès 97 2,580
Terra Alta 11 1,052
Urgell 17 2,109
Vallès Occidental 259 3,491
Vallès Oriental 128 3,128
Catalonia 3,110 2,403
Barcelona 2,252 2,447
Girona 340 2,180
Lleida 194 2,205
Tarragona 324 2,444
Source: Ministry of Health.

Last update: March 10, 2020.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Hospital pharmacy
Pharmacy service within a general hospital, whether public or private.
Pharmacy
Private health establishment of public interest where the managing pharmacist (owner of the establishment, aided, if necessary, by assistants and auxiliaries) must provide the population with a series of basic services. The purpose of a pharmacy is to promote health through the rational use of medications, and its inherent and primordial function is to provide medications.

Methodological aspects

Health establishments require authorisation from the Ministry of Healtht, which is granted by resolution of the Ministry's director general of Regulation, Planning and Health Resources.

Pharmacies must ensure that certain compulsory safety measures are observed. Therefore, before opening or relocating such an establishment, authorisation must be requested. Likewise, when making reformations to essential or compulsory elements of the pharmacy, these must be reported and authorisation for the same must be requested.