It feels like stepping back a hundred years.
Imagine pharmacists making amoxicillin behind their counters, families begging for Doliprane from their neighbors.
Here is the face of a France struggling with drug shortages that were thought impossible.
The seventh economy of the planet falls from above.
Whose fault is it?
There is of course globalization, the obvious culprit which has led to the transfer of 80% of the production of active ingredients to China and India.
In calm weather, big deal!
On the other hand, when trade goes wrong, under the influence of a pandemic, a standoff between Beijing and Washington or the war in Ukraine, the supply of Western pharmacies seizes up to stop.
The public authorities have constantly reduced the price of drugs
But, let's be realistic, these shortages are above all the symptom of a health policy that has made drugs the adjustment variable for the financing of costly Social Security, certainly because of ageing, but above all...
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