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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2018
Pharmacy offices Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 2,013
Alt Empordà 75 1,833
Alt Penedès 37 2,920
Alt Urgell 10 2,018
Alta Ribagorça 3 1,275
Anoia 42 2,857
Aran 5 1,984
Bages 73 2,408
Baix Camp 75 2,548
Baix Ebre 37 2,086
Baix Empordà 69 1,910
Baix Llobregat 263 3,101
Baix Penedès 31 3,330
Barcelonès 1,225 1,838
Berguedà 21 1,863
Cerdanya 10 1,788
Conca de Barberà 10 1,993
Garraf 43 3,422
Garrigues 12 1,573
Garrotxa 26 2,155
Gironès 81 2,312
Maresme 149 2,983
Moianès 9 1,490
Montsià 27 2,522
Noguera 22 1,737
Osona 62 2,543
Pallars Jussà 7 1,846
Pallars Sobirà 4 1,723
Pla d'Urgell 18 2,055
Pla de l'Estany 14 2,282
Priorat 9 1,022
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1,444
Ripollès 13 1,915
Segarra 10 2,252
Segrià 81 2,535
Selva 69 2,426
Solsonès 6 2,262
Tarragonès 100 2,555
Terra Alta 11 1,034
Urgell 17 2,132
Vallès Occidental 269 3,419
Vallès Oriental 132 3,083
Catalonia 3,214 2,359
Barcelona 2,324 2,410
Girona 355 2,116
Lleida 198 2,166
Tarragona 337 2,379
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.