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"Mr President, pharmacovigilance should be to medicinal products what haemovigilance is to blood and organ vigilance is to organs: a comprehensive insurance policy. Having said which, I should, in fact, say a quasi-comprehensive insurance policy, because we know – as has been said – that taking medicinal products, even strictly in keeping with the package leaflet, is not without adverse reactions.
Sometimes, it is even fatal; 197 000 deaths a year, as our rapporteur, Mrs McAvan, pointed out in her explanatory statement, just as she also pointed out this afternoon the tragic episodes which have marked the history of this sector.
This statistic is unacceptable. It needs to be significantly reduced through more efficient collaboration between all links in the chain. That is why I support all the proposals made in this direction: better coordination through the EudraVigilance database, improved patient information and, as has been said, better information in both senses – Mrs Rivasi and Mr Turmes explained this – as well as real transparency in the work of the new European Pharmacovigilance Risk Committee.
To conclude, independent expertise – and I shall come back to this time and again – is the alpha and omega of all our policies. It is vital here in order to strengthen patients’ confidence."@en1
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