You will have to be patient at the pharmacy. The shortage of paracetamol and amoxicillin, on which the National Medicines Safety Agency has been warning for several months, will not be resolved for several weeks. And the triple epidemic raging in France does not help matters. “The problem is that there is a 13% increase in the consumption of paracetamol with these flu-like phenomena which was not anticipated by the manufacturers”, points out the Minister of Health François Braun, in the program. Telematin on France 2.
“We are on their backs” so that production adapts accordingly, he assures, and the return to normal could go “very quickly” for paracetamol, of which only “certain forms” are missing. But there will be a delay between the build-up of stocks by manufacturers and availability in pharmacies. “We are looking with pharmacists” to resolve this latency, explains the minister, who says he is “concerned”.
Regarding amoxicillin, an antibiotic widely used in children, the shortage should last another “two months”, according to François Braun. “I have just authorized the manufacture of amoxicillin in France,” he announces.