A patient who used Levothyrox and complaining of side effects, has just filed a complaint in the court of Grasse (Alpes-Maritime) against the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, and the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire. She criticizes them for not having been able to “manage this health crisis”, and accuses them, relying on the Penal Code, “of voluntary abstention from providing assistance to a person in danger”.
An angry lawyer
Anne-Catherine Colin-Chauley, a resident of the Alpes-Maritimes and lawyer at the bar of Ajaccio, complained, as thousands of other people, side effects following the change in the formula of Levothyrox, a drug that treats the thyroid. Cramps, dizziness, stomach aches or hair loss, many complaints have been added to his in recent months. Three million patients are treated with Levothyrox in France, including Anne-Catherine Colin-Chauley, who plans to seek other drugs abroad. “My blood test is very bad and the disorders persist.”
His complaint also targets the Merck laboratory, manufacturer of the drug and the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM). Finally, files a complaint against X and criticizes the doctors and pharmacists for not having taken into consideration the abnormal symptoms of their patients; journalists and the media for having “directed the information” and politicians for not having “honored their duty in the general interest”.
This lawyer created the collective Thyroid Alertwhich already has, according to her, 600 members. Ms. Colin-Chauley has so far tabled 100 patient complaints joining his action and plans to file 200 more in the coming days.
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