Tuesday, for four long hours, Agnès Buzyn, responded to the National Assembly's commission of inquiry on the management of the new coronavirus crisis.
The former Minister of Health defended her record, saying that she had understood the arrival of the pandemic and prepared the health system for its arrival. Except for the issue of masks, which were insufficient and out of date when he arrived at the ministry, she noted.
"At my level, I have never had a specific alert from Public Health France on stocks, either when I arrived as a minister or after," says @ agnesbuzyn. # DirectAN # COVID19 #Buzyn pic.twitter.com/F01mHSqswm
- LCP (@LCP) June 30, 2020A question that will not fail to be addressed again this Wednesday afternoon during the hearing of two former health ministers, Marisol Touraine and Roselyne Bachelot.
The deputies will put on the grill the two former members of the government, from 2012 to 2017 for Marisol Touraine and 2007 to 2010 for Roselyne Bachelot, in order to know how France could let its strategic stock of masks melt.
In 2011, a billion masks in stock
At the end of the H1N1 flu pandemic, in 2011, they were stocked, France had almost a billion surgical masks and more than 700 million more protective FFP2 models.
Store them at a cost, which had earned many critics to Roselyne Bachelot who had already been criticized for too large an order for vaccines, 6 of the 94 million doses having been used.
But too much is far from being the enemy of good if we believe what we have just experienced, the precautionary principle is now in order.
“I find it hard to see this as revenge. Revenge is something happy and I am not happy. I knew they would do me justice and I thought they would do me justice after my death. A stroke of luck: I only waited ten years, "said the former Minister of Health of the Fillon governments in April.
Coronavirus: the revenge of Roselyne Bachelot?
➡🎙 "I find it hard to think of it as revenge. I knew they would do me justice and I thought they would do me justice after my death. My luck: I only waited ten years" # GGRMC https://t.co/wVFcdiHpQ3
In 2013, while Marisol Touraine was in post, a change of doctrine was noted. Mask stocks are managed with a flow logic and the idea of relying on Chinese imports and French production capacities to replenish these stocks in the event of a crisis.
Two years later, a report by Senator Francis Delattre warns of declining stocks. Five years later, they melted. When the new coronavirus begins to spread, the state has no reserves of FFP2 and only 117 million adult surgical masks and 40 million for children.
Another health minister will be heard on Thursday. Xavier Bertrand, who held the position from 2005 to 2007 under the Villepin government and from 2010 to 2012, will have to explain his own inventory management.
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