Médicaments : Les Profits de la pénurie

Injectable anti-inflammatories, anticoagulants, anti-infectives, anticancer therapies and even cotton wools are in short supply. Like many others in France, the pharmacy at Rennes hospital is constantly on the edge. Over the past two decades, shortages of medicines and health products have surged twentyfold across Europe. With almost all laboratories affected, clinicians and health facilities are compelled to ration through quotas to bridge the gaps. Some even must triage patients for access to treatments, using scales established by the laboratories. In the Netherlands, hospital pharmacies have resigned themselves to manufacturing the molecules they lack.