Salespersons got worked up about pharmacy’s poor sales

To help with pharmacy mask sales instead of telecommuting

There are pharmacies that have difficulty paying in March due to falling sales

Pharmaceutical industry sales managers are also suffering from the economic downturn in the medical institution caused by the aftermath of COVID-19.

 

This is due to the fact that some retail pharmacies refuse to pay monthly payments to pharmaceutical salesmen due to a decrease in prescriptions.

 

Even at the end of February, quite a few managers had trouble collecting the bills.

 

However, with the prolonged COVID-19 situation, there are not a few pharmacies that already have difficulty making payments in March, so pharmaceutical companies are suffering in silence.

 

According to the pharmaceutical industry on the 18th, there are quite a few pharmacies that will delay drug payments to pharmaceutical companies due to sluggish sales.

 

In particular, pharmacy managers not only provide product descriptions, but also discuss the details about pharmacy matters and help pharmacists and pharmacy staff, and even after COVID-19 , the main job changed from general medicine promotion to procurement and sales of masks.

 

The biggest concern for pharmaceutical pharmacy managers right now is collection in March.

 

It is known that a number of pharmacies are notifying that it will be difficult to make payments in March.

 

In fact, it is known that the average prescription received in March has been reduced to less than 100 prescriptions/day in one ophthalmology center around Seoul.

 

It is a prescription that came out in close to 300 cases/day in the same month last year.

 

Another pharmacy located in Seoul, also said that prescriptions per day plummeted from 250 to 100 cases per day.

 

Although it varies by region and condition, most pharmacies are suffering from a decrease in patient sales and a drop in prescription sales due to COVID-19.

 

“We had a hard time collecting pharmacies in the last week, even last month when the COVID-19 issue began to take off”, said one pharmaceutical company representative.

 

"Some employees delayed the payment of pharmaceutical companies because of difficulties in pharmacies, so it was said that they gave up about half of their pharmacies".

 

As a result of summing up the prescription trends of the pharmacies he was charge of, the representative said that the decrease in sales was a general phenomenon in the pharmacy.

 

In particular, pharmacies with more than half the number of prescriptions reduced are noticeable.

 

"It's hard to whinge about this situation even worse at a pharmacy," said a representative in charge.

 

Many pharmaceutical companies are working from home, but even this is far from Salespersons.

 

Prior to the sale of public masks, pharmacies requested more masks, so some sales representatives lined up in front of markets and household goods stores to obtain masks.

 

Since the pharmacy started selling public masks, there are a number of pharmaceutical companies in charge of mask packaging, social security number identification, and mask sales.