Amoxicillin, paracetamol, corticosteroids… At present, it can be complicated to obtain certain drugs in pharmacies. “We have a real problem on all the drugs but there is no shortagereacted François Braun, the Minister of Health, questioned by our colleagues from BFMTV this Monday, April 3, 2023. There are no drugs in absolute rupture, but in tension.”
Precisely: to combat these “tensions“, the government is currently working on “a big plan“. This will include the creation of a list of the most important drugs for the population: “it is necessary to determine which are the essential drugs, the critical drugs, those that no one can do without. (…) We are in the process of finalizing this list for [le mois de] May with all medical specialties.“
Should we take inspiration from the list of the World Health Organization?
Once the list of these famous “essential drugs” constituted, it will be a question of identifying precisely where these are manufactured – from the active ingredient to the last stage of production before marketing. Ultimately, it will be a question of “repatriate [la production des] active ingredients of these essential medicines with France and the EU“.
The United States has already lent itself to the exercise: across the Atlantic, the list of “essential drugs” has 173 references. The World Health Organization (WHO), for its part, proposes a “Model List of Essential Medicines“where we find in particular non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), antibiotics, vaccines, antidepressants, anticoagulants…”More than 150 countries are currently using the WHO list to determine which medicines best fit their health contexts and priorities.“ underlines the WHO. A possible inspiration?
Source : BFM-TV
