Holger Seyfarth confirmed as chairman of the Hessian Pharmacists Association (HAV).
20.01.2023 12:52
Holger Seyfarth (60) remains chairman of the Hessian Pharmacists Association (HAV): At the constitutive meeting of the board in Offenbach am Main, the boards of the five HAV district groups Frankfurt am Main, Darmstadt, Gießen, Kassel and Wiesbaden confirmed the Frankfurt pharmacist for another four years in office.
Seyfarth has headed the HAV since 2017. Over 98 percent of the 1,400 pharmacies in Hesse are organized in the Hessian Pharmacists Association, which currently offer around 12,000 jobs. The deputy chairman Dr. Guido Kruse (Offenbach) as well as treasurer Leif Harmsen (Hofheim am Taunus) and deputy treasurer Jeanett Wetzel (Heusenstamm). The new secretary of the state board is Miriam Oster (Oberursel), her deputy Florian Meissl (Bensheim).
Goal: Securing the existence of on-site pharmacies
Seyfarth named securing the existence of on-site pharmacies as the most important goal of his four-year term in office. “The ongoing delivery bottlenecks are currently putting a lot of strain on us. “At the moment, over 200 medicines are either impossible to obtain or are very difficult to obtain,” said the HAV chairman, outlining the situation. In order to fulfill their care mandate in the interests of patients, the pharmacies have been doing an immense amount for months. “This is a truly mammoth task that we tackle on site every day together with our employees,” said Seyfarth. The sustainable recognition of this service for quality of care by politicians and health insurance companies is one of the numerous topics that the HAV is focusing on this year.