NORTH TEXAS – Prescription drugs can be expensive, and most pharmacies don’t care if you’re rich or poor; the medicine costs the same whether you can afford it or not.
The St. Vincent de Paul Pharmacy in Dallas looks like any other pharmacy on the outside – filling bottles, scanning prescriptions, packing up medicine and shipping it out to patients.
“Last year we helped over 4,000 patients,” said pharmacy manager Carlos Irula.
And if you look a little closer, you’ll see things are a little different here.
“Too good to be true, or something like that, but in this case it really is true,” said Irula.
That’s because the pharmacists here, like Irula, are filling and shipping life-saving medications all for free.
“This service is 100% free to patients,” he said.
Patients like Ana Orenalla don’t pay a dime for medication.
“My husband is diabetic. I think we would have spent a lot. At least $300 a month. It’s just a lot of money,” she said.