Question 32619 — health professions

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Ms. Cécile Delpirou draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the risk of stock shortages of surgical gloves in France. This difficulty in accessing surgical gloves, nitrile or vinyl, which are one of the main protections for health professionals against covid-19, but also essential for routine hospital care or PCR tests, has persisted for several months now. Already, Ehpad are running out of stock. The Hauts-de-France regional health agency confirms tension over the availability of these protection tools. As a result of this, we are seeing a sharp increase in prices, sometimes multiplied by five, for boxes of gloves. In the Somme department, departmental supplies ceased at the beginning of September 2020 and the prospects for new supplies remain very uncertain. The state guarantees a certain number of gloves for healthcare professionals until October 2020, but what will happen after that? Certain professionals, whose strategic stocks will no longer be guaranteed by the State in a few weeks, will have to buy boxes on their own at prohibitive prices. She therefore wishes to know what means will be mobilized so that these actors in the world of health, who are on the front line against the covid-19, do not be alone in facing this problem.

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