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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2020
Pharmacy offices Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 2,047
Alt Empordà 75 1,865
Alt Penedès 38 2,898
Alt Urgell 10 2,013
Alta Ribagorça 3 1,304
Anoia 42 2,946
Aran 5 2,029
Bages 74 2,425
Baix Camp 77 2,545
Baix Ebre 37 2,119
Baix Empordà 69 1,951
Baix Llobregat 269 3,080
Baix Penedès 34 3,195
Barcelonès 1,226 1,867
Berguedà 21 1,901
Cerdanya 10 1,875
Conca de Barberà 10 1,991
Garraf 44 3,436
Garrigues 12 1,587
Garrotxa 26 2,223
Gironès 82 2,337
Maresme 154 2,950
Moianès 9 1,550
Montsià 27 2,567
Noguera 22 1,755
Osona 61 2,657
Pallars Jussà 7 1,860
Pallars Sobirà 4 1,748
Pla d'Urgell 18 2,078
Pla de l'Estany 14 2,325
Priorat 9 1,019
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1,442
Ripollès 13 1,939
Segarra 11 2,084
Segrià 81 2,576
Selva 71 2,419
Solsonès 6 2,303
Tarragonès 100 2,634
Terra Alta 11 1,027
Urgell 17 2,183
Vallès Occidental 273 3,433
Vallès Oriental 138 3,003
Catalonia 3,247 2,381
Barcelona 2,348 2,429
Girona 358 2,147
Lleida 199 2,187
Tarragona 342 2,406
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.