Professor Rémi Salomon is a pediatric nephrologist at Necker Hospital and representative of the medical community of the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP). For the past ten days, he has been stepping up to warn of the imminent risk of a shortage of medicines. He is notably behind a letter signed by the nine largest hospitals in Europe, sent Tuesday March 31 to European leaders to alert them to this risk.
LE FIGARO. - You have been alerting since March 20 via social networks about a risk of drug shortage. What is the situation at AP-HP?
Rémi SALOMON. - The list of drugs in tension is considerable. But the risk of rupture is particularly important for those used by the intensive care units. These are curares, muscle relaxants necessary for assisted ventilation, sedatives, essential to immerse patients in an artificial coma, as well as certain antibiotics. In normal times we are used to
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