2023-10-24 20:07:28
By Solenn Paulic
Published 13 minutes ago, Updated 1 minute ago
A parcel distribution company for pharmacies which supply medical practices, in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis). Sébastien SORIANO/Le Figaro
DECRYPTION – The European Commission wants to prevent situations of extreme shortages of medicines from recurring.
Bruxelles
Lidocaine, paracetamol, abortion pills or anti-cancer drugs… The European Commission no longer wants to relive the winter of 2022 when European patients found themselves running out of medicines, sometimes critical. While awaiting the results of a more structural reform imposing more obligations on industrialists, and presented in April, Brussels therefore proposed to the Member States on Tuesday ways to better get through this winter, as well as the next. Starting with a voluntary mechanism for sharing medicines: which can be put in place immediately, it will allow a country facing a shortage to report it and turn to its neighbors.
To get a better idea of the state of shortages in Europe, the Commission will also present by December, as it had already announced, a common list of 100 to 150 critical drugs, following in the footsteps of the work started here. by the European Medicines Agency or at national level. These medications will need to…
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