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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2019
Pharmacy offices Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 2,029
Alt Empordà 75 1,849
Alt Penedès 38 2,870
Alt Urgell 10 2,009
Alta Ribagorça 3 1,282
Anoia 42 2,904
Aran 5 2,000
Bages 74 2,406
Baix Camp 77 2,516
Baix Ebre 37 2,096
Baix Empordà 69 1,927
Baix Llobregat 265 3,108
Baix Penedès 34 3,112
Barcelonès 1,226 1,861
Berguedà 21 1,884
Cerdanya 10 1,822
Conca de Barberà 10 1,984
Garraf 43 3,463
Garrigues 12 1,578
Garrotxa 26 2,192
Gironès 81 2,346
Maresme 152 2,980
Moianès 9 1,516
Montsià 27 2,546
Noguera 22 1,745
Osona 60 2,584
Pallars Jussà 7 1,855
Pallars Sobirà 4 1,723
Pla d'Urgell 18 2,064
Pla de l'Estany 14 2,304
Priorat 9 1,017
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1,442
Ripollès 13 1,922
Segarra 10 2,272
Segrià 81 2,561
Selva 71 2,391
Solsonès 6 2,281
Tarragonès 100 2,600
Terra Alta 11 1,028
Urgell 17 2,160
Vallès Occidental 272 3,419
Vallès Oriental 136 3,023
Catalonia 3,234 2,372
Barcelona 2,337 2,424
Girona 357 2,130
Lleida 198 2,183
Tarragona 342 2,375
Source: Ministry of Health.

Last update: May 3, 2022.

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.