Table 3 Pharmacy characteristics

Pharmacy type

• Attached to doctor’s clinic

50 (72%)

• Not attached to doctor’s clinic

19 (28%)

Pharmacy location

• Street

62 (90%)

• Residential areas

3 (4%)

• Traditional market

3 (4%)

• Shopping mall

1 (1%)

Pharmacy ownership

• Pharmacist

7 (10%)

• Non-pharmacist

60 (87%)

• Other (i.e., joint business of pharmacist and non-pharmacist)

2 (3%)

Pharmacy services

• Self-medication services

69 (100%)

• Compounding prescription medication services

65 (94%)

• Non-compounding prescription medication services

68 (99%)

• Other (e.g., health promotion, etc.)

2 (3%)

Estimated total patients served per day (from 67 pharmacies)*

4595

Estimated total patients served for self-medication per day (from 67 pharmacies)*

2975

Total staff employed in the 69 pharmacies surveyed

352

• Total number of pharmacists

75

• Total number of pharmacy technicians

86

• Total number of staff who do not have formal education in pharmacy

191

Total staff working hours per week in the 69 pharmacies surveyed

• Pharmacists

1270

• Pharmacy technicians

3542

• Other staff who do not have formal education in pharmacy

8973

Total pharmacy opening hours per week in the 69 pharmacies surveyed

6198

Number of pharmacies which had a ratio of pharmacists’ working hours per week to total pharmacy opening hours as <1**

68 (99%)

Number of pharmacies which had a ratio of pharmacy technicians’ working hours per week to total pharmacy opening hours as <1**

52 (75%)

Number of pharmacies in which the pharmacist manager had a primary job other than being a pharmacy manager (i.e., as a government employee)

55 (80%)