2024-05-09 04:36:00
When Anne Le Beuz learned that they were the size of a large tangerine hidden in her brain, she had “the first shock”. When a neurosurgeon warned her, at the end of 2019, that she would have to operate within six weeks, “the sky fell on my head a second time,” says the fifty-year-old, who lives in Fontenay -aux-Roses. (Hauts-de-Seine). The fault lies with Androcur, a progestin-only medication he was prescribed six years earlier as a standard birth control pill. On the phone, the mother of two lets a few tears flow. “I was lucky that I got a lot of support from my husband, who was very scared for my life,” she says.
Like many other victims, the telecommunications engineer believes that the risks have not been sufficiently informed in recent years and she is now demanding accountability from the State. “It’s a public health scandal! », thunders to the lawyer who represents them, Charles Joseph-Oudin. Two hundred applications were registered at the beginning of March at the administrative court of Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis). Three others, including the one related to Anne Le Beuz, must be released in the coming weeks. This legal aspect is a new step in a large series involving very broad prescriptions, differences between professionals and health authorities who have been accused of being slow to respond.
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