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Acre Senator Márcio Bittar (Union-AC) received this Friday, the 6th, the pharmacy and pharmaceutical workers unions of the State of Acre. The meeting had as its central agenda the debate on the attempted National Congress to release the sale of medicines in supermarket shelves through Bill 2.158/2025, by Senator Efraim Filho, his party colleague. The Senate Social Affairs Committee (CAS) will hold, on Wednesday (11), from 12h (Time Acre), a public hearing that discusses the theme again.
Acre Senator Márcio Bittar (Union-AC) received this Friday, the 6th, the unions of pharmacies and pharmaceutical workers of the State of Acre / Photo: Reproduction
“I have no sympathy. Each one in his place: supermarkets are not the place to have medicine on the shelves. So I have no sympathy for the project. You can count on my support, because we are together in this battle,” said Bittar when heading to the trade unionists. The meeting was brokered by Rio Branco Councilwoman (AC), Lucilene da Drug Vale, and state deputy André da Drug Vale. Already the acting president of the Association Values Farma (AFAFARMA), Edmilson Alves, explained that the project, besides weakening public health, would generate unemployment in pharmacies, while supermarkets would keep the vacancies, without creating new jobs.
For the president of the Brazilian Association of Pharmaceutical Trade, Rafael Oliveira Espinhel, the risk is not only theoretical. “What occurs in other sectors is that there is an acceleration of the closure of small establishments, followed by market concentration and, in the medium term, increased prices due to loss of competitiveness,” he reveals. Laércio da Pharmacy, pharmacist and owner of a drugstore in the Belo Jardim neighborhood, recalled the importance of small drugstores to take health everywhere, especially the most distant and neglected. Now, with this threat, they can fail, and the population of the peripheries will lose access to the qualified professional and always ready to serve the people.
