Patf Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 No wonder the french health service is bankrupt. I went to the pharmacy today to replace a small roll of gauze dressing, must have been brought over from the UK. I took a little piece in with me to show, and they were very puzzled, never seen such a thing. Eventually decided it was "compress" and I bought this large box with precut , individually packaged pieces which must have cost a fortune to prepare. Actually, it wasn't all that expensive, about 2,50€ for 5m .There's the same problem if you try to buy aspirin - too much packaging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Âme Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 I know what you mean. To clean & dress a cut finger for ten days we were given 80€ worth of sticking plaster, gauze, compress, sterile solution, ointment.... Almost all of the bits were individually wrapped. I guess that, at least, the remainder are sterile until opened.Isn't the tricky packaging on pills deliberate; to dissuade would be overdosers, (one loses the will to unpack the pills before too much damage is done), or is that only paracetamol? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 A few weeks ago, went skiing only to realise I had a blister on my heel from a new pair of shoes. Went to a pharmacist for some sticking plasters. Nice lady advised I use something called 'second skin'. Well it came in a nice heavy duty plastic box but I nearly collapsed when she wanted €7.90 , for band aid!!! Well, I thought, at least there's plenty of these second skins in there, but no. In this big box, there were just 5 of them. I have to admit they did work very well indeed so my skiing holiday wasn't ruined but I did grumble quite a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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