Due to the intensity of the rain in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, which caused torrents and flooding, water entered numerous establishments. One of them was a pharmacy located on the first block of San Martín street, at the same location for 70 years, where water affected shelves, refrigerators with oncology medications, supplies, documentation, and prescriptions. Mauricio and Lorena, the pharmacy owners, along with an employee, carried out rescue tasks for the affected items.
The pharmacist stated: "The truth is that we realize how small we are when nature acts." They arrived on Friday at 8 in the morning, finding the store without power and suffering millions in losses, including oncology medications in refrigerators, documentation, and prescriptions, all submerged underwater.
In response to the emergency, ABSA set up water tanks near Plaza Rivadavia to supply residents, while Civil Defense provided units to charge mobile phones. Trucks from the Argentine Navy began the draining tasks in a parking building, where several vehicles remain submerged.
In the micro and macro center, similar scenes occurred with merchants removing damaged products and neighbors extracting water with hoses and pumps from garages and places with electrical equipment. The rainstorm on Friday in Bahía Blanca caused havoc, with furniture, belongings, and memories destroyed and taken to the streets in every neighborhood.
The pharmacy, with over 60 years of history, has suffered significant damage to oncology medications, refrigerators, supplies, furniture, and documentation. Despite the material losses, feelings of anger, resignation, and distress mingle in the couple of pharmacists facing devastation. One of the owners commented: "Anger, resignation, distress, it's a mixture of feelings. Distress, pain, sadness, among others, are part of the sensations of a couple of pharmacists from a central store in Bahía Blanca, who suffered million-dollar losses due to the rainstorm on Friday."
