Of 50 public pharmaceutical depots visited, 48 (96%) had single-use 5 ml syringes available.
At each of the 52 facilities visited in April 2001, we selected randomly 30 prescriptions for each month of June between 1995 and 2000 and visited the adjacent public pharmaceutical depots.
We visited 52 health care facilities where injections had been observed during a 2000 injection safety assessment and their adjacent operational public pharmaceutical depots.
Overall, the number of single-use 5 ml syringes sold and distributed by the national wholesaler to the network of public pharmaceutical depots increased from 880,000 in 1996 to 1,840,000 in 2000.
To the south, just after a small park, is an oil storage tank field, followed by an asphalt plant, followed by a large public school bus depot.
Of the 52 health care facilities visited in April 2001, 50 (96%) were equipped with a public sector pharmaceutical depot selling syringes and needles directly to patients.
Prior to the completion of this new facility, the handling of ammunition there had to take place in other areas, near public housing and fuel storage depots.
The buildings, whether office blocks, shopping malls or distribution depots (or public libraries, hospitals or schools) are expensive in absolute terms, yet generally good value for money given what they are required to do.
Video of the clash at a busy bus depot ignited public outrage.
Gordon estimates that, by 1970, America had over 50,000 pay toilets, scattered throughout airports, bus depots and other public places.
