{"id":28518,"date":"2020-04-15T15:07:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T11:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=28518"},"modified":"2020-04-15T15:07:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T11:07:43","slug":"aster-pharmacy-to-offer-medicines-at-cost-price-to-visitors-stranded-in-uae-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/aster-pharmacy-to-offer-medicines-at-cost-price-to-visitors-stranded-in-uae-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Aster Pharmacy To Offer Medicines At Cost Price To Visitors Stranded In UAE Due To COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leading pharmacy chain in the UAE today announced that it will offer medicines at cost price to visitors who are stranded in the UAE due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Aster Pharmacy, part of Aster DM Healthcare, said in a statement the decision came following &#8220;several requests from various consulates to assist their citizens to avail prescription medicines \u2013 many of which can be very expensive to purchase privately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are currently a large number of people stuck in the UAE as a result of COVID-19 issues, many of whom do not possess health insurance: this is especially worrying for those that have chronic conditions requiring ongoing medical support &#8211; in addition to visitors with acute illness that require immediate medication,&#8221; it explained.<\/p>\n<p>The Pharmacy said it will provide medicines at cost price to visitors who can provide proof of their identity and a visit visa in addition to a prescription from a licensed medical practitioner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If prescriptions have been prepared by doctors outside of the UAE, alternative medicines will be provided at cost price,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading pharmacy chain in the UAE today announced that it will offer medicines at cost price to visitors who are stranded in the UAE due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Aster Pharmacy, part of Aster DM Healthcare, said in a statement the decision came following &#8220;several requests from various consulates to assist their citizens to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28520,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28518\/revisions\/28520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}