Struggles to hire these technicians surpass similar issues to hiring pharmacists, front end staff and delivery drivers combined. Two-thirds of the 332 pharmacy owner and manager respondents said they are “having a difficult time filling open staff positions.”
Here are four other results from the poll, which asked about drug shortages:
1. Ninety-seven percent said they currently had a shortage of some drugs. The same percentage have a shortage in Adderall.
2. More than nine in 10 said they are dealing with a shortage in children’s pain and fever relief medicine.
3. Eighty-five percent said they are facing a shortage of diabetes medicine.
4. Four in five said they are experiencing a shortage of amoxicillin.
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