Amoxicillin, paracetamol, cancer drugs… why the worrying drug shortage will last

Between 2016 and 2021, the number of missing medicines has increased fivefold. In the light of the first data, it is not 2022 that will bring a clearer picture. Every day, there are new antibiotics, anti-cancer, anti-infectives that do not arrive in city pharmacies, such as hospitals. Which deprive patients of sometimes essential treatments. Last example to date: amoxicillin which, as we revealed this Thursday evening, is in high supply tension, everywhere in the world, and now in France.