2023-06-14 09:46:29
Despite the efforts made to optimize the production of essential drugs, the Minister of Health, François Braun, warned on Wednesday June 14 that shortages of drugs would certainly still occur next winter.
“We will still have shortages, risks of stock shortages. It’s going to be even more complicated next winter.”declared the minister at the microphone of RTL, the day following the announcements of the President of the Republic regarding measures to relocate and strengthen the production capacity of medicines considered to be priorities.
Emmanuel Macron, traveling to a drug production site in Ardèche, had indicated that “not totally rule out” of the “difficulties in the months and years to come”, despite new plans to relocate the manufacture of some fifty essential drugs. In the winter of 2022-2023, pharmacies reported shortages of paracetamol and amoxicillin, an antibiotic widely prescribed to children to treat infections.
To “have a health system that functions normally”
François Braun wishes that, when the situation is tense, fewer stocks are constituted, “but that the French can always find the medicines they need”.
The 50 drugs expected to return to national soil correspond to treatments deemed particularly critical from a therapeutic point of view, whose production chains have shown such vulnerability that relocation is necessary to guarantee supply. “These are the drugs with which we can have a health system that functions normally”observes the Minister, despite the variations in stocks according to the seasons.
These 50 drugs are part of a larger list of 450 treatments “essential”the supply of which is considered essential in pharmacies and hospitals to treat the French.
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