Castanilor: Mon–Fri 7:30–21:00
The team

The people behind the counter

Four pharmacists and four pharmacy assistants. All with name badges, as the law requires, and patience, as the job requires.

Ioana Păltineanu

farm. Ioana Păltineanu

Chief pharmacist, founder

Opened the pharmacy in 1998. 27 years at the counter, vaccination course, member of the Brașov College of Pharmacists.

Mihai Dobre

farm. Mihai Dobre

Pharmacist · Castanilor

Pharmacist since 2011. Handles vaccination and advice for chronic patients: diabetes, hypertension, anticoagulants.

Radu Ciocan

farm. Radu Ciocan

Pharmacist · laboratory

Compounded medicines are his: ointments, paediatric solutions, capsules. Six years in the pharmaceutical industry before joining us.

Andreea Lupu

as. Andreea Lupu

Pharmacy assistant · Zizinului

Runs the Tractorul pharmacy and the home deliveries. Knows most of the neighbourhood's older customers by name.

Why independent

No sales targets, time for questions

An independent pharmacy has no head office deciding which products get pushed this week. We decide, customer by customer, and the only criterion is whether it does them good.

It costs us: we cannot match chain prices on some products. What you gain: a pharmacist who knows your treatment, calls you when a missing medicine comes in, and tells you when two prescriptions do not fit together.

Ioana Păltineanu, chief pharmacist
Pharmacist at the shelf

In shortSince 1998

  1. 1998

    Castanilor 12

    Ioana opens the pharmacy in her grandparents' house, with a single assistant.

  2. 2006

    The laboratory

    The first compounded medicines. Today we make over 1,500 a year.

  3. 2014

    Zizinului 110

    The second pharmacy, in Tractorul, at the request of customers who had moved there.

  4. 2020

    Home delivery

    Started in the pandemic for the elderly, it stayed: 1,800 deliveries a year.

  5. 2023

    Vaccination in the pharmacy

    The first flu-vaccination season at Castanilor.