Shortage of drugs: the Senate inquiry committee begins its work

2023-02-02 23:00:00

The French meet growing difficulties in obtaining medication which are prescribed to them, both among those in common use such as amoxicillin and paracetamol and the long-term treatments which are essential to them. This situation, which compromises public health, experienced a particularly critical phase this winter due to the scale of the triple epidemic covid, influenza and bronchiolitis. In this context, the Senate created a commission of inquiry in order to shed light on the causes of these shortages and of propose concrete solutions to remedy.

Incorporated on 1^is February, the commission of inquiry will also look into the drug industry business model. The vertiginous prices of certain particularly innovative treatments now raises the question of access to care for all and the ability of the health system to meet this expense.

The commission will begin its cycle ofauditions next week ; it will first hear from the institutions in charge of drug policy.

The commission of inquiry will deliver its conclusions in mid-July.

Its office is composed as follows:

President : Sonia de la Provôté (Centrist Union – Calvados)

Rapporteur : Laurence Cohen (Communist republican citizen and ecologist – Val-de-Marne)

Vice-presidents :

– Bruno Belin (Republicans ratt. – Vienna)

– Alexandra Borchio Fontimp (The Republicans – Alpes-Maritimes)

– Laurence Harribey (Socialist, Ecologist and Republican – Gironde)

– Annick Jacquemet (Centrist Union – Doubs)

– Patricia Schillinger (Rally of Democrats, Progressives and Independents –
Upper Rhine)

– Veronique Guillotin (European Democratic and Social Rally –
Meurthe-et-Moselle)

– Melanie Vogel (Ecologist – Solidarity and Territories – French living outside France)

– Vanina Paoli-Gagin (The Independents – Republic and Ratt. Territories – Dawn)

Secretaries :

– Alain Houpert (The Republicans – Côte-d’Or)

– Emilienne Poumirol (Socialist, Ecologist and Republican – Haute-Garonne)

Find the page of the commission of inquiry on the shortage of drugs
and the choices of the French pharmaceutical industry:

http://www.senat.fr/commission/enquete/2023_penurie_medicaments.html

The commission of inquiry is chaired by Sonia de La Provôté (Groupe Union centriste – Calvados); its rapporteur is Laurence Cohen (Communist Republican Citizen and Ecologist Group – Val-de-Marne).

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