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There are 12 000 pharmacies in Greece or three times more per capita than in other European countries. Even assuming that the country’s geography can easily explain this it is a bit strange that there are 1,250 pharmacies in the Thessaloniki area - as many as in the whole of Austria, according to data from the Greek Pharmaceutical Union. One provision in the new bill of the Ministry of Health allows twice as many pharmacies to be opened within a radius of 125, 6 meters around hospitals and clinics and this is what pharmacists themselves oppose. They argue in a document containing suggestions and comments on the bill sent to lawmakers in the Greek Parliament that under the current law a pharmacy could be opened 10 metres away from a working pharmacy near a hospital. So, they wonder why this provision is necessary to be amended and whether this will lead to opening of pharmacies with benefits. Another interesting point is that 35 out of 40 pharmacies in Ceres are located within a radius of 200 meters to the hospital, said the document again.