PHARMACY location and ownership rules can be challenging to get your head around, with some legislation open to interpretation.
Just ask Maltese pharmacy owner, Jane Mifsud, who received the green light to open a new store in the rural village of Burmarrad, on the Mediterranean island nation's east coast, after 15 years of trying, the Times of Malta reports.
Superior Court Justice, Robert Mangion, ruled this week, that local health authorities misinterpreted legislation which restricted pharmacy permits to towns, when they rejected Mifsud's application in Apr 2008.
Mifsud lodged a complaint with the Ombudsman, who ruled in her favour in 2011, recommending the application be processed as soon as possible.
However, it took another 11 years for the pharmacy to be approved, after public health officials insisted that the recommendation could not be implemented because the Ombudsman had erred in its definition of what constituted a "town".
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