drug shortage continues

Every day, a pharmacist of Deux-Sèvres she prepares-even plus hundreds capsulesamoxicillin, which she sometimes lacks. “JI made a series of 300 in 250 mgtoday,pbecause the pharmacies still have stock, but it doesn’t not going to last”, she declares. Industrial production is no longer enough. “I will make a request at the house of the five wholesalers with whom we work. (…) We can’t have any. It’s like that’s itevery days”testifies another pharmacist.

Access to medicines under pressure

“There’s clearly a supply problem and of demande”, according to Fabien Bruno, boss of the Delpech compounding pharmacy, especially since the mask is no longer worn. The National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM) maintains that his objectactive is to guarantee L’access to medications dthroughout the territory. “Lwhen there is a risk of tension, I block automatically tall exports (…) Then we will see if we can importare mmedicines”explains Christelle Ratignier-Carbonneilgeneral director of theANSMat the microphone of franceinfo. ANSM also says that it will limit certain indications and will call to the proper use ofmedicines.