More than 80 percent of our antibiotics come from China: “If they close the tap there, you can’t even operate Appendicitis anymore”

More than 80 percent of our antibiotics come from China and that is a risk to our access to critical medicines. “If they close the tap there, you can no longer even operate appendicitis here,” our Minister of Health Frank Vandenbroucke (Vooruit) outlined the danger in current affairs magazine Terzake on Canvas. Today, the European Commission proposed a plan of action to do something about it, but he finds that insufficient.

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