2024-05-07 16:50:00
4,900 references in a very tight flow: the Eure-et-Loir department is facing shortages in several families of drugs (antibiotics, antidiabetics, anticancer drugs, etc.), according to the FSPF 28, the majority union of community pharmacists . In order to make legislators aware of what constitutes a “risk” in terms of public health, the FSPF 28 has launched a particularly viral communication campaign.
An avalanche of emails as viral as the bad flu! This is what awaits the seven parliamentarians of Eure-et-Loir or, at least, the collaborators of these deputies and senators, who are responsible for administering their mailbox, in May 2024.
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Stock just in time
Called by the FSPF 28, the branch of the Department of the majority union of community pharmacists, these emails criticize the shortage of medicines that affect, in France as in Eure-et-Loir, about 4,900 references in a very tough, regularly out of stock. stock, Sébastien Michel, co-president, with Didier Huguet, of the union of pharmacists Eure-et-Loir (FSPF 28), denies the majority of community pharmacists. “We receive around twenty calls a day from patients who want to know that medication is available.
Several drug families involved
Among the large family of drugs affected by these shortages, Sébastien Michel specifies “treatments against cancer, diabetes and heart rhythm disorders, antibiotics, growth hormones, in particular”.
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According to the representative of the department of pharmacists, another crisis is threatening the pharmaceutical market, which is already undermined by structural reasons (increase in needs due to the aging of the population, relocation of production and dependence on drugs): the cost.
In France, business (also) cheap
“In France, the CEPS (economic committee for health products) which sets the price of medicines by applying the lowest prices in Europe. We cannot blame a French laboratory for selling a reference, for example, outside France at twice the French price. The result is that medicines produced in France are sold elsewhere and do not benefit the French.”
Pharmacists’ viral PR stunt
As the CEPS is legally responsible for setting the price of medicines, the campaign launched by pharmacists is targeting the French Parliament. “We have sent a QR code to every pharmacy in the Department. As soon as we cannot deliver medication to a patient, we invite them to flash this QR code with their mobile phone, which generates an email that will be sent directly to the seven parliamentarians of the Department . Eure-et-Loir The objective is to allow them to measure the extent of the problem.
Consequences. The shortage of medicines that affects Eure-et-Loir, like the entire territory, causes significant harm to public health, emphasizes the FSPF 28, which denies rupture and interference with contraindicated treatment, especially in the treatment of chronic pathologies .
Sébastien Couratin
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