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Medicines: faced with shortages in Belgium and France, consumers are crossing the border to buy them
Some medications cannot be found. French people who live near the border try to obtain them abroad, such as in Belgium. – (France 2)
Some medications cannot be found. French people who live near the border try to obtain them abroad, such as in Belgium.
In Florenville, Belgium, a few kilometers from the border, in a pharmacy, French people come to buy medicine. The cause: shortages of certain antibiotics in France. “We had a wave of French people in the summer for injectable anti-inflammatories and corticosteroids. There was a stock shortage on the French side so they came to us”confides Renaud Clément, pharmacist in Florenville.
Supply tensions which are unlikely to improve with the arrival of winter
In Belgium, shortages of medicines have been worrying for several months. So the Belgians, too, find themselves crossing the border. Like in Carignan, in the Ardennes. This is the case for Corinne, she needs special medicine for her ears, but it is impossible to find it in Belgium. Supply tensions on both sides of the border, which are not expected to improve with the arrival of winter.
