2023-11-13 13:35:52
These shortages affect around 500 products each year Alexandra Breznay / Hans Lucas via Reuters Connect
DECRYPTION – The production and distribution circuit is affected by numerous shortages, which affect no less than 10% of regularly used medicines each year.
By Gilles Aulagner, professor of pharmacy (University of Lyon), president of Entretiens de Galien, and Florence Durupt, pharmacist, vice-president of Entretiens de Galien.
For more than fifteen years, the medicines circuit has been affected by numerous shortages in France and around the world, which now extend to medical devices. These shortages affect around 500 products each year, for an average duration of thirty days. That’s almost 10% of medications used regularly! These are often old products whose therapeutic use is well established and which are considered to have a major contribution (antibiotics, anticancer drugs, etc.). The repercussions of shortages for patients are very diverse and depend on the more or less essential nature of the medication, the severity of the pathology, the patient’s own characteristics, the duration of unavailability and the potential consequences of treatment. substitute
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