{"id":49664,"date":"2020-11-05T09:45:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T07:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/community-celebrates-pharmacys-40-years-20201104-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T08:28:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T06:28:25","slug":"community-celebrates-pharmacys-40-years-20201104-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/community-celebrates-pharmacys-40-years-20201104-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Community celebrates pharmacy\u2019s 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"embed_8a2a0995\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/9433\/a8b21b52587b4117953ba5d1a8e2e571.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/9433\/1b64b5eab42241939dd56d8be40e4aa6.jpg\" title=\"Vicky and Devi Naidoo from Gamble Pharmacy.                     Photo:SUPPLIED\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Vicky and Devi Naidoo from Gamble Pharmacy.                     Photo:SUPPLIED<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>CARING health professional Veganathan Naidoo has not only seen to the management and preventative health aspect of the citizens of Uitenhage for more than a lifetime but has become part of the very fabric of the town. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vicky, as he is known, is the owner of Gamble Pharmacy, which has become more than just a place to get your medicines, it has become a haven for the ill and infirm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vicky is not in the business of making money, more in the business of delivering an excellent service to his clientele of whom most became his friends. He knows everyone by name, maybe he knows more people in Uitenhage than most people who had spent their entire lives in town. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He would go out of his way to assist those in need. It is seldom that one finds such enthusiasm, energy for hard work, diligence, and commitment and such a competent mind in a single individual. Vicky deserves all the accolades that come his way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At one stage Gamble Pharmacy sponsored almost every dance, concert, karaoke or church ticket in Uitenhage. During a particular period, all the businesses at the shopping complex, which housed Gamble Pharmacy encountered a serious economic downturn, but Vicky and Gamble Pharmacy, survived and in fact, the pharmacy prospered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was totally due to Vicky\u2019s gracious and engaging personality. 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