This Saturday, June 8, Marilou Berry took her phone to film an Instagram story on camera. The opportunity to rant against the pharmaceutical industry, while his sick son, named Andy, needed a very specific medication. “We live in incredible times… I just went to about five pharmacies to find amoxicillin”first explained the 41-year-old actress.
However, she felt that she had “luck” to live in Paris, where “there is a pharmacy every three meters”, since this is not the case for all French people finding themselves in a situation similar to his. Surprised not to find the medicine she was looking for right away, Josiane Balasko’s daughter went “informed” in order to understand why, since “well over a year, there have been shortages.” This is how she discovered that “the health system in France, which means that we pay very cheaply for medicines”, is in question. “The industry finds that it does not bring in enough money, especially on drugs as basic as these, as inexpensive. The stocks are first sold to countries which buy more expensively,” she was indignant, adding: “And then we, eventually, at the end, we recover what is there, last. And there you have it, that’s why we no longer have the most basic antibiotic in the world, the one that gives us prevents you from getting sore throat.”
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French manufacturing that would solve the problem
By way of explanation, Marilou Berry specified that “the raw molecules of these drugs are manufactured by China, it is not us who sell them”, by questioning the functioning of this industry: “So my question is, when are drugs manufactured in Europe? Especially amoxicillin which is somewhat the most important.” Planning to soon question the doctor and novelist Baptiste Beaulieu, whom she knows well, on the subject, the actress concluded her message with a call to the polls during Sunday’s European elections: “So, I will take care of my son. Have a nice weekend and go vote tomorrow!”
Article written with the collaboration of 6Medias
Photo credits: Jeremy Melloul / Bestimage
