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In Côte-d’Or, the inhabitants of Aignay-le-Duc are mobilizing to avoid the closure of their village pharmacy. The owner will retire next fall, but cannot find a buyer.
In Aignay-le-Duc (Golden Coast)the pharmacy is suspended. Its 68-year-old owner is looking for a buyer, but cannot find a candidate. “Because young people want to settle together. (…) At the limit, I am willing to give it to the pharmacy, if I find a young person who wants to work”says Geneviève Mayeuxdistraught.
The pharmacy, which has existed for 130 years, is still very profitable. “Especially since here, you always have to travel a lot of kilometers to get something. So yes, a pharmacy in a village is still very important”comments a customer. If many shops are still open in Aignay-le-Duc, the closure of the pharmacy would put the balance of the former capital in danger. For François Melchior, municipal councilor (SE)the dispensary is indeed “one of the locomotives of the village“.