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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2021
Pharmacy offices Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 2,061
Alt Empordà 75 1,877
Alt Penedès 38 2,919
Alt Urgell 10 2,031
Alta Ribagorça 3 1,341
Anoia 43 2,911
Aran 5 2,068
Bages 74 2,437
Baix Camp 77 2,561
Baix Ebre 37 2,146
Baix Empordà 69 1,977
Baix Llobregat 270 3,072
Baix Penedès 34 3,284
Barcelonès 1,227 1,857
Berguedà 21 1,913
Cerdanya 10 1,939
Conca de Barberà 10 2,008
Garraf 44 3,485
Garrigues 12 1,595
Garrotxa 26 2,248
Gironès 83 2,310
Maresme 155 2,947
Moianès 9 1,588
Montsià 27 2,574
Noguera 22 1,757
Osona 61 2,674
Pallars Jussà 7 1,848
Pallars Sobirà 4 1,800
Pla d'Urgell 18 2,093
Pla de l'Estany 14 2,344
Priorat 9 1,031
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1,439
Ripollès 13 1,961
Segarra 11 2,103
Segrià 82 2,538
Selva 71 2,431
Solsonès 6 2,333
Tarragonès 100 2,648
Terra Alta 11 1,028
Urgell 17 2,199
Vallès Occidental 277 3,393
Vallès Oriental 139 2,998
Catalonia 3,258 2,379
Barcelona 2,357 2,422
Girona 359 2,156
Lleida 200 2,184
Tarragona 342 2,426
Source: Ministry of Health.

Last update: May 9, 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.