Question 32600 — pharmacy and medications

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Ms. Sylvia Pinel questions the Minister of Solidarity and Health about the shortage of drugs against cancer. This highly detrimental situation is observed throughout the country. Out of stock includes intravesical BCG (bacillus Calmette and Guérin), used in the treatment of bladder cancer. Indeed, in 2019, 1,499 medicines were reported in shortage or out of supply to the National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM), of which 22% concerned oncology. The League Against Cancer continues to warn of the accentuation of this phenomenon which is gaining momentum: 34 times more shortages reported in 2019 than in 2008. While the Government announced in July 2019 a strategy to prevent and combat drug shortages, the situation is hardly improving. Some patients, helpless in the face of the worsening of their condition and the lengthening of the waiting list to benefit from their treatment, are forced to undergo surgery which, in the absence of a shortage, could have been avoided. In addition, health professionals, specifically in cities, highlight a worrying lack of information on the origin, duration and history of these shortages. Also, she wishes to know what measures the Government intends taken to remedy this serious public health issue which endangers the quality and continuity of care.

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