Pharmacy stays open despite severe flooding
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Floods in Sheffield reached Associated Chemists pharmacy (bottom
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Sheffield pharmacy Associated Chemists (Wicker) Ltd has maintained its record of opening every day since 1952 despite being under water earlier this week. Customers came and went by boat.
Pharmacist James Wood said that the pharmacy had been knee-deep in water
on 25 June but that damage and stock losses had been minimised by moving
computer equipment and stock.
Speaking to The Journal the following day, Mr Wood said that the shop
cellar had been flooded to the top of the stairs, but water was being
pumped out by the fire brigade so that power supplies in the pharmacy
could be restored. “We’re in the city centre, which was 5ft
under water last night,” Mr Wood said. “By 3pm the road was
flooded and impassable. The water was above car roof level. Staff left
by boat because their cars were flooded in the car park, but we opened
as usual at 8.30 this morning. There’s no power, so we’re
operating in the old fashioned way.”
Mr Wood said that pharmacy services were limited, but that some of its
500 registered drug users were coming in for their supplies, and deliveries
to the 20 nursing homes it supplies were going out as usual.
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