“We have all underinvested in health for 40 years. The question is whether those who are in charge today, as is my case, make the decisions that are necessary”, he said. declared during a trip.
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He regrets that there is no vaccine against Covid-19 produced in France. The Prime Minister, Jean Castex, will announce next month “a massive reinvestment plan for Sanofi in France”he said Friday, January 27, during a meeting with caregivers in Obernai (Bas-Rhin).
“We have all under-invested in health for 40 years. (…) The question is whether those who are in charge today, as is my case, take the necessary decisions”said Jean Castex during an impromptu conversation with two department heads of the new Obernai hospital.
“All French people, in Alsace as elsewhere, have been traumatized by this affair like me: it is the lowering of resources for 30 years on innovation in health research that has resulted in us not doing of French vaccine… That is no longer possible! We must reinvest massively”he continued.
“We have to start again. We are going to create a health innovation agency. We have to relocate manufacturing to France, as we did with paracetamol. It’s also a question of sovereignty”he added, without giving further details.