Tornadoes Destroy Alabama Medicine Supplies

Alabama pharmacists benefited from the issues dealt with during Hurricane Katrina and had a plan in place to help those who need daily medication after the deadly tornadoes that decimated the state. With their medicine supplies swept away and destroyed, victims who survived and require their regular, chronic and prescription medicines are struggling to find a helping hand. But methods have been put into motion by both pharmacists and private healthcare insurers that will help alleviate that struggle temporarily.

While one can never be fully prepared for such a devastating event, after the turmoil with Hurricane Katrina, the pharmacists of Alabama were as ready as they could be. 30-day supplies of medications were dispensed at pharmacies of affected areas and patients were able to pick up that short term supply as long as they could show some proof that they had already been receiving the medicines. If proof and identification of the medicine was lost in the storm, pharmacists were also able to find the required information in their online system or over the phone. While this does not include painkillers, it does include the vital medicines patients needed to survive.

Another aid set in motion is the free medical clinics that were strategically placed in devastated communities. While many citizens did not require immediate medical attention, over a hundred patients with diabetes and asthma were able to have access to testing equipment, insulin and asthma inhalers. Going without these may simply be an inconvenience for a day or two, but going long term can be life threatening. The purpose of this free clinic effort is to avoid those problems all together.

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