Question 14597 — pharmacy and medications

Summary

Mr. Gaël Le Bohec draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the drug shortage situations that pharmacies are repeatedly faced with, particularly for anticancer drugs, anti-infectives and vaccines, which are particularly affected. At the end of the work of an information mission created on this subject, the Senate submitted, at the end of September 2018, a report on the shortage of medicines and of vaccines. According to this report, the shortage of medicines and vaccines would lead to significant financial risks as well as wasted medical and logistical time at all levels of the medicines chain. It would thus contribute to the destabilization of the healthcare system at the same time as a loss of health independence which is worrying for France and for Europe. Among the thirty axes which have been put forward to stop the problem, the Senate report proposes in particular the group purchase of "sensitive" products at European level, the establishment of tax incentives to encourage companies which would set up new production sites in France, or even unpackaging or unit packaging, a measure which appeared in the campaign commitments of the President of the Republic, to limit the waste of medicines. Therefore, he would like to know the approaches that have been taken by the Government to avoid situations of shortage of medicines and vaccines, which are sometimes very problematic, even dramatic, for patients. He also wants to know if he plans to change the obligations of hospital establishments for the organization as well as for the management of their purchases and their stocks of medicines.

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