Call for testimonials. Are you a victim of the shortage of medicines? tell us
Rebelote. After a winter of 2022-2023 marked by stock shortages on very common medications like amoxicillin and paracetamol, the arrival of the cold season is once again marked by tensions over medications. “We are at almost 4,000 drugs [en rupture ou risque de rupture] today,” alarmed Pierre-Olivier Variot, president of the Union of Community Pharmacists’ Unions (USPO), on October 26 on franceinfo.
Tuesday October 31, Aurélien Rousseau, the Minister of Health, announced that he was going to bring together “next week” all the actors concerned by the subject of management of drug stocks to understand why certain patients “can’t find any “. The ANSM (National Medicines Safety Agency) for its part points to “stocks available on the national territory, but still with this difficulty in ensuring that there is a distribution on the territory which is completely homogeneous. »
Are you concerned about drug shortages? Tell us. What medication is it exactly? To what extent does this endanger your health or that of the patient concerned? Was this drug already out of stock last year? Have you found any solutions? Which ones? Do you run to pharmacies to find them? Have you stocked up in advance? Have you found a replacement molecule? You can testify in the form below. Your testimonies will be used to write an article. Thanks in advance.
