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On May 16, 2023, François Braun said he had received a first list of 281 drugs in critical supply.
Shortages of medicines in pharmacies have increased thirty-fold in ten years. A real public health problem that the government is trying, not without difficulty, to resolve. On Tuesday, the Minister of Health also assured that he had received a list of medicines subject to supply tensions. A first step to “avoid ruptures”, assures the government.
The list should encourage the implementation of “concrete measures”
This first list of “critical” medications above all allows us to take stock of missing treatments.
“I committed to a list of so-called critical drugs before the end of this month, I had a first list of 281 drugs exactly today“, declared François Braun during questions to the government. This list “will be further adjusted because there is […] duplicates“, he added, in his response to MP Béatrice Descamps.
It will subsequently allow “to better study the production chain of each drug and to implement concrete measures to avoid shortages.”
The Minister of Health also made a point of recalling that in recent months “measures have been taken towards industrialists“, in reference to the repeated reminders from the executive.
A plan is planned this winter
“There is also a winter plan, since every winter we increase the consumption of certain medications, and also a white drug plan being implemented.“, specifies François Braun.
Ultimately, this list should strengthen and accelerate the work of the government.
She “will allow us to better study the production chain of each drug and to implement concrete measures to avoid shortages“, concludes the former emergency doctor.