“Mr. Minister of Health, my name is Maxime, I live in Moyon, on the Canal”. At 15, Maxime has cystic fibrosis. He must take a heavy daily treatment, consisting of ten medications. But, given the shortage of medicines that especially affects France, four of his medicines are totally or partially out of stock.
Among the missing tablets: growth hormones, essential for the development of adolescents. “My pharmacy managed to get a box by calling the Pfizer lab directly,” says the boy’s mother, Amélie Lefranc, into the BFMTV microphone.
“College life can turn into horror”
But in February, the pharmacy fails to get the medicine. The mother of the family had to travel “45 kilometers” to pick it up at another pharmacy in the department. Without this medicine, Maxime runs the risk of chaining operations.
A medicine that I take in the morning and at night. If I no longer have this medicine, I die. A university life can become a horror”, the teenager fears.
Faced with this situation, the teenager decided to write a letter to the Minister of Health, François Braun, in February to alert him to his situation. For now, the family has no horizon.
“It seems wrong to me that in France, nowadays, you can tell a person or a child: ‘I’m sorry, but we don’t have a solution to bring you because there are no drugs,'” criticizes the father. by Maxime, Anthony Croquevieille.
The Ministry of Health responded to Maxime, assuring him that the National Drug Safety Agency (ANSM) was taking care of his file. Almost a month and a half later, the family still hasn’t found solutions.
Source: BFM TV
