The Medicines Agency (ANSM) announced on Wednesday that it would "conduct an inspection within" the University Hospital Institute (IHU) of Marseille, headed by the controversial professor Didier Raoult, who "continued to issue tuberculosis treatments ”without his authorization.

The ANSM also indicated that it had seized the public prosecutor for these facts confirmed Wednesday by the Public Assistance of the hospitals of Marseille (AP-HM).

On October 22,

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revealed that "since 2017, the IHU has been carrying out wild experimentation against tuberculosis, causing serious complications in several patients, including a minor".

The ANSM indicated that it was "alerted in May 2021 (…) on possible breaches of the IHU of Marseille" as regards the regulation of these tests.

The AP-HM, which conducted a rapid internal investigation into the "potential seriousness of the reported facts", said Wednesday that a "research protocol on this combination of antibiotics had been filed".

A spokesperson clarified that this protocol had been filed in August 2019, but that it had been withdrawn a month later "given the reservations expressed by the ANSM".

The investigation carried out by the organization, on which the IHU depends, also confirms that "some" of the patients treated against tuberculosis with the combination of antibiotics in question were "suffering from renal complications, of which at least one of them. them required surgery, ”wrote the AP-HM.

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