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TROPIC • HEALTH

The Alive family

FRONTLINE SUPPORT
Professor Trent Twomey
Secretary World Pharmacy Council
Co-Owner Alive Pharmacy Warehouse groups are just as much a part of the repeat prescription, a simple Urinary
Pharmacists are the firefighters of the Alive Pharmacy Warehouse family as Tract Infection or a vaccination.
COVID crisis. We are the frontline we are of them. You can rest assured #ASKYOURPHARMACIST, we can help
of the frontline, we are the first to that by choosing us you are choosing to with much more than you might think.
open, the last to close and we are more support YOUR community. Pharmacists and Pharmacy Assistants
accessible than any other part of our During this time our health system together are the second largest
healthcare system. is going to be under unprecedented healthcare profession behind our
Trevor, Leo, Georgina and I love being pressure. We are all going to have to nursing cousins. Together we number
Pharmacists and we are passionate act with patience with our Doctors, over 100,000 nationally. My mum was
about what we do. Being a Pharmacist Pharmacists, Nurses and Paramedics a Pharmacy Assistant and they are the
is all about community. It is all about as we all stretch to meet the demand unsung heroes of the Alive Pharmacy
keeping those we love “Happy, Healthy that will Warehouse Group.
and Alive” to live the life they want the inevitably be Our Pharmacy
way they want to live it. placed on our Assistants are our key
Since 1998, we have been serving emergency Being a Pharmacist is all point of difference.
Tropical North Queensland 12 hours departments, They are our faces,
a day and seven days a week, through our general about community. It is all the personalities, and
the pilot strike and the Global Financial practices and our about keeping those we the energy holding
Crisis and through cyclones and now pharmacies. our whole team
COVID-19. We have been there through We all need to love “Happy, Healthy together.
it all, helping you and your family. remember a few and Alive” Remember,
We have always given back to the simple rules. pharmacies are
community that has supported us, and Firstly, if you Trent Twomey, deemed essential
Alive Pharmacy
we continue to support our business are unwell help services during
and advocacy bodies, Advance Cairns will come to States of Emergency,
and the Chamber of Commerce, to you. Please don’t go out unnecessarily. so wherever you live in Tropical North
ensure that Cairns bounces back bigger, Pick up the phone and call your local Queensland please remember you
stronger and brighter through each pharmacy and we will do our very best are not alone. We are here for you day
challenge that comes our way. to bring you the help you need, when and night, seven days a week. You are
The Ride for Isabel, the Cardiac you need it. part of the Alive Pharmacy Warehouse
Challenge, the Cairns Taipans and Secondly, don’t unnecessarily block up family.
many local sporting and community our GP’s or our ED’s whether it is for a

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