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France received eight and a half million masks against the Covid-19 on Monday. A delivery from China which is not unanimous, as is the case for Doctor Christophe Prudhomme, spokesperson for the Association of Emergency Physicians of France and CGT national delegate. He regrets that French companies do not have enough leverage in the production of medical equipment.
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"We are a number of people who have alerted for years that we are massacring our productive tool for medical materials", thus denounced Christophe Prudhomme on Europe 1, which also regrets an overly strong dependence of France vis-à-vis from abroad.
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"If we lack respirators, it is because we no longer have factories. We have sold everything abroad. Vampires plunder patents, close factories in France and go abroad. It's the same thing with masks and drugs, "denounced the spokesperson for the Association of Emergency Physicians of France.
The LMVH model
But Christophe Prudhomme remains hopeful, by recalling for example that the LVMH company was able "very quickly, without the State asking, to transform its production lines of perfumes into production chains of hydroalcoholic gel". The doctor believes that other sectors could be requisitioned by the state such as textiles or chemicals, which he says are "capable of reorienting their production very quickly".
Christophe Prudhomme thus denounces a certain economic immobilization of the government in the face of this crisis. "Today is the great resource in France. One has the impression that the state is paralyzed and incapable of taking measures and closing the markets," he points out.